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For the Years 

1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900. 



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SEPTEMBER, 1894. 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 

I I'Mrst, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (M) What is sijelling? (b) Define alphabetical equiv- 
alents. 

2. (a) State the advanta.i^es of oral spelling; (b) writ- 
ten spelling. 

•S. Wliat is meant by word analysis ? 

T. Syllabic?'. te, nuu'k the primary accent, and give 
proper diacritical mark to each vowel in the following- 
words : Ifiiicnt, laiih-ulal'lc, slrald, iiiLTaiiitiie, phraseology. 

h. (rive five nouns, underscoring the sufilx in each, the 
suffixes- meaning respectively: act of, to make, one 70/10, pertain- 
i)ii^ to, slate of l>e//i:{. 

6. Whr.t is the distinction between the phonic and the 
orthographic spelling of words? 

7. I'.^e a prefix with each 
and show how the nieaning is 
s/\^//t, rate. 

8. (a) What are the words called that sound alike. 



of the following words, 
changed: print, fair, modest. 



but are spelled dilferently? (b) That are not alike but 
mean ne-'rly the sune? 

9. Spell and define each of the following words and 
two others, liaving the same sound as each one: lorite, road, 

raise, seen, siglil. 

10. Spell correctly each of the following: si Under, eml>ar- 

ifss, prii'aledge, sintillate, t/iiir-o, slite, preferrable, catapiller, camfecne, 
siirjent. 

READING, 

[First, Second or Tiiird Grade (^ertiftcate.l 

1. (a) What is reading? (b) Define articulation, (c) 
(live an error in articulation. 

2. (a) What isempliasis? (b) Mention three ways of 
using it. 

3. (a) Is there a difference in quantity of tone and pitek 
of voice in reading? (b) Explain your answer. 

4. What drills do you give pupils as to: (a) Position 
of body? (b) Holding of book? (c) Breathing? (d) Ges- 
ture? (e) Facial exi^rt-ssion ? 



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5. How would you conduct a reading lesson in a large 
class, looking to (a) Correcting exTors, (b) Naturalness, 
(c) Mastery? 

6-10. Read an extract of ten lines each of prose and 
poetry for your exaniiner. 

(Examiner will grade from to 25 each extract read and 
deliver same to the Grading Committee to be added by 
them to the grading of the questions above.) 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) What was the Declaration of Independence? 
(b) Who was its author? 

2. Explain the allusion in ''Charter Oak." 

3. (a) Give date of Andrew Jackson's administration, 
(b) Name two important political questions settled. 

4. What was the principtil issne on wliich Polk was 
elected President? 

5. (a) Who enunciated the " Monroe doctrine " ? (Ji) 
What was it ? 

6. What five men, afterwards celebrated in history, 
first came into notice during the Mexican War? 

7. What was the "era of good feeling," and who was 
President? 

8. (a) How did the United States get Florida? 
(b) Who was the first governor after it became a State? 

9. Couple the names of the inventors with what you 
consider the five greatest American inventions. 

10. Name five great battles of the Civil War, and tell 
which side was victorious in each. 

UNITED STATES HISTOFY. 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Name three of the chisf advanttiges to be derived 
from the study of history. 

2. Into what periods would you divide United States 
Historv ? 

3. Relate briefly the causes which led to the struggle 
for Independence, 

4. Give a brief account of two of the most decisive 
battles of that struggle. 

5. (a) What gave rise to the war of 1812? (b) Name 
some results following that war. 

6. (a) Name five important acquisitions of territory, 
(b) Who was President when each was acquired? (c) Tell 
what led to the acquisition in each case. 

7. Givs a brief history of political parties from 
Washington to Cleveland. 

8. Give the principal features of President lan- 
coln's inaugural address. 



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9. (a) Trace briefly the financial history of this coun- 
try, (b) Wnat of the '"wild cat" banks?* (c) Panics of 
1887 and 1S78? (d) What seems to l:te the present financial 
policy ? 

10. What of the growth in art, sdoncc, literature and ed- 
ucation in tlie past half century? 

ARITHMETIC. 

[Second or Thiril Grade ("ertiticate.J 

1. (a) At 27 bushels an acre, low many bushels of 
wheat will be harvested from ()-lO acres ? (b) Which is tlie 
multiplicand in this example, and why? 

2. If division is a short way of performing many sub- 
tractions: (a) Wliat in division corresponds to the subtra- 
hend? (b) What to the minuend? 

8. Given the divisor 9U, the (piotient 909, and the re- 
mainder 9, what is the dividend? 

4. ilesolve 81570 mto five prime factors. 

5. W'lat is 1 he quotient of the least common multiple 
of 16, 20, 2-i and 80 divided by the greatest common divisor 
of 2878 and 66B7 ? 

H. ^a1:1±i^\% of \^ ? 

'*7 ' 1 4 

7. ( I2P.0X 8.49)-=- 1.047 -8S.(J2-^.(M)211= ? 

8. A tiu box 11 inches long, 7 inches wide, and 8 
inches thick will hold liow many gills ? 

9. T. F. ilcEeath bought* for .$2 an acre the Wi., of 
NEI4, the Sk, of NWI4, the NW^rt of SEI4, and NE'i^ of 
SWI4 of a section of land; he sold the NW^4 of NEI4 at 
.t2.r.() an r.cre, the 8Wi'4 of NEI4 at !^8 an acre, the SWJ4 of 
NW'4 at $1.20 an acre, the SEi-4 of Is^ \ at .$2 an acre, the 
W^3 of ^YA-^ of 8Wi'4 at %h an acre, the E3o of NWI4 of 
SE'4at.$4an acre: (a) How nuich land did he buy? (b) 
How much did he sell? (c) What is the description of 
what he now owns? (d) Btsides clearing the land he now 
owns, what per cent, did he make on his speculation ? 

10. How long must $1,;jOI.64 be on interest to amount to 
$1,522.92 at 5 per cent.? 

ARITHMETIC 

[First Grade Certiflcate.] 

1. A boy, after spending \ of his money for candy and \ 
for lollypops, found that 20 cents was } of what reinained! 
How much money had he? 

2. If 1.4 bushels of rice cost $1.50, what will 7 bushels 
cost ? 

8. (a) Prove that a cubic foot is approximately .8 of a 
bushel. (\i) Also that a bushel is nearly \\ cubic feet. 



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4. The property of Gainesville is valued at $2,8()(),()t)(). 
HoAv many mills tax would have to be levied for one year 
to pay for a hriek school house costing $9,120, if there were 
200 polls ijaying $2 each, and tlie collector's commission on 
both polls and property tax was 5 per cent.? 

5. Divide $5,376 among three heirs proportionately to 

12 lit 21^ 

6. What iDer cent, is made by a druggist who buys 
medicine at $5 a j)ound avoirdupois weight and sells it at 4H 
cents an ounce apothecaries' weight? 

7. Find the difference between the true and the bank 
discount on a non-interest bearing note for $6,28^ for 9 
months and 15 days, money being worth 6 per cent. 

8. If six men dig a cellar 22.5 feet long, 17f\, feet 
wide, 10 feet 3 inches deep, in 3 days of 10 hours and 15 min- 
utes each, how many men will it require to dig another in 
12 days of 8.2 hours each, 45 feet long, 34| feet wide, and 
12.3 feet deep? ^ 

9. What will be the length of a line that will exactly 
reach from the lower corner to a diagonally opposite upj^t-r 
corner of a cubical room that co. '.tains 1 9 ) 5,624 cul^ie feet of 
space ? 

10. At a franc a square foot, what will it cost in U. S. 
money to tin a conical church steeple whose perpend iculai' 
height is 40 feet and its base 18 feet ? Ans. $223.73-|- 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[Second or Third Grade Certiticne.] 

1. Name and define five properties of nouns. 

2. Write the possessive ease, plural number, of//, 7i'//ii//, 
cupful, son-ill-law, Knig/it-teiuplar. 

3. (a) Which parts of speech are declined? (b) 
Which are compared? (c) Which are conjugated? (d) 
Decline son-in-law. 

4. Give the rule applying and compare each of the 
f«jllO',ving: bad, handsome, lovely, polite, beautiful. 

5. Give the principal parts of the following verbs: dire, 
say, drink, eat, gird, cling, set, shoe, lie (to recHne), I ly. 

6. (a) Give all the properties of the verb. (1)) Tell 
how the passive voice is formed. 

7. Give synojisis of the verii see with he through all 
tenses of the indicative mood. 

8-9. Analyze or diagram: ''When a man dies, they 

who survive liim jisk what property lie lirs left behind." 

10. Parse in the_ above sent^nc?: whn, they, who, what, ash. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[First Grade Certiticate.] 

1. (a) What is meant by inflection ? (b ) The derivation 
of words? (c) Distinguish between etymology and syntax. 



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2. Name and form tlie plurals of five nouns each by a 
different Kule. 

3. Classify sentences (a) as to form, (b) as to use. 

4. Define (a) a phrase; (b) a clause, (c) Tell when 
each may );e called an adjective element; (d) an adverl)ial 
element. 

5. Analyze: 

"Beyond the darkening ocean burned 

The bloody sunset's "ml)ers, 
Whil;> tile Crimean valleys learned 
How En<>lisli love remembers." 
(i-7. Diagiam according to Reed & Kellogg or Har- 
vey the a])ove sentence. 

H. Parse in full in the above sentence: Beyond, dor/:- 
i-iiiii_^, blood)\ InirncJ, wliiL\ Criiiu-ati, /io~u', it'ineinbers, ei)d>ers, ninsi-t^s. 
9-10. State what principles of grammar are violated 
in each of the follov.'ing sentences: 

(a) Every man and everv won)an esteem tlieir own 
bfst. 

(b) Trust not Iiim whoni you know is disiionest. 

(c) If we study we will learn. 

(d) These Kind are fjest. 

(e) Such expressions sound l)arshly, 

GEOGRAPHY. 

[Second or 'I'hird Grade C'ertitlcate.] 

1. (a) How many degrees of the earth's longitude corre- 
spond to one liour of time? (b) Explain. 

2. Start at New Orleans and sail up tlie Mississippi to 
St. Paul and mane in order (a) the States you would see, 
(b) the cities, (ci the industries. 

8. (a) Name five peninsulas on the coast of Nortli 
America, (b) Locate them. 

4. (a) Name the countries of South America. (b) 
Name their capitals, (c) Tell what form of government 
each has. 

5. (a) Name the islands known as tlie (Ireater Antilles. 
<b) Name tlie chief city of each, 

6. (:.) Wliat is the greatest longitude a place can liave ? 
(b) What tlie greatest latitude ? (c) E!xplain each. 

7. (a) Wliat two rivers divide Florida into tliree great 
sections? (b) Name all the counties in the section in which 
you take the examination. 

8. (a) N.ime the railroad systems of Florida. (b) 
Approximately how many miles in the State ? 

9-10. Locate the following cities: Jacksonville, Key 
West, Pensacola. Tampa, 



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GEOGRAPHY, 

( First Grade Certificate. J 

1. Define the axis of thf^ earth. 

2. Name five zones and give the widtli of each in de- 
grees. 

3. (a) What nation controls the Suez canal? (b) 
What waters does it connect? 

4. Starting from Chicago, and traveling entirely by 
water, on what waters would you sail in order to reach 
Vienna ? 

5. (a) Name the countries crossed by the 4Uth parallel 
of north latitude, (b) Begin on the west coast of the United 
States and nauTe in order going east the states crossed 
by it. 

6. (a) Where are the dvkes found? (b) Why wei'e they 
bulk? 

7. Name ten valuable articles of commerce exported 
from Africa. 

8. (a) Name five countries of Europe bordering on 
the Mediterranean sea. (b) Give capitals of each. 

9. Compare the animal life of Europe and America. 

10. (a) Name the six largest citios of Europe, (b) L«>- 
cate each. 

COMPOSITION. 

[First, Second or Third tirade f.'enificate.J 

1. (a) Wiiat is the us-e of tlie paragraph in composition? 
(b) Illustrate. 

2. (a) Name the different parts of a letter, (b) How 
should each be punctuated ? 

S. (a) Wiiat is meant by out/ining-a subject? (b) Maks- 
an outline of the following subject: A Day at a. Picnic. 

4. (a) Name five figures of speech. (b) lUustratf- 
each with a short sentence. 

5. (a) How would you rank letter writing in import- 
ance among the various forms of composition? (b) At 
what stage of the pupil's education would you teach letter 
writing ? 

6-7. Write a short letter to a County Superintend- 
ent applying for a school. State your age, experience in. 
teaching, educational advantages, your late reading on 
teaching as a science, salary you expect, and name two- 
persons as references as to your character and success as a 
teacher. Be careful about tlie begmning and closing of 
your letter. 

8-iU Outline your subject with not Less than five 
heads and write an essay of not less than KM) and not ov.'v 
200 words on one of the following subjects: 
(a) Tlie Recent Strike. 



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(b) Teachers Summer Schoolg. 

(c) The Press of the Present Day. 

NOTK. — Punctuation, capitali/ation, spelling, paragrapli- 
ing, style and subject matter each to be considered jn grad- 
ing the last question. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

[Second or 'J'hird Grade Certitlcatc 1 

1. (a) What are the offices of the skeleton? (bj Name 
and locate the Ixjnes of the upper body. 

2. (a) Whsd is the composition of bone? (b) Explain 
liow a fractured ))one rei)Mi)'s itself. 

;>- Describe muscles as to their (a) arrangement; (!>) 
covering; (c) most wonderful property. 

4. Name the divisions of the alimentary canal. 

5. What would you do in case of a deep flesh \> ound 
tliat wfis bleeding profusely? 

6. (a) What is done to the blood in the lungs? ih) 
"Why not brenthe air a second time? 

1. (a) Why is the skin called i\,\\ excretory (jrgan ? (h) 
F.xplain its functions. 

8. Describe thf: ))rain as to (ti) shape; (1)) size; (c) 
ratio of white and gray matter. 

9-10. Kxi)lain the digestion of a piece of fat ujent, tell- 
ing what bodily want it supplies. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

1 First Grade Certiticate, ) 
L Define (a) physiology; (b) anatomy; (c) hygiene; 
(d) ossification; (e) assimilation. 

2. Name and descri))e the parts of the hip joint. 

3. la) What is the cause of soreness after violent ex- 
ercise ? ih) What will lie the effect, physiologically speak- 
ing, of bathing and rubbing .-it such times ? 

4. What parts of tlie bmly require the following: (a) 
:^dbumen; II)) lime; (c)iron? 

5. Begin with the left auricle and trace the circulation 
•of the l)lood tijrough the system, naming the valve.*5, cham- 
bers, tubes and organs through which it passes- 

6- (a) Name the excretory organs, (b) Explain tlie 
functions of ea-ch. 

7. (a) Describe the nervous system, (b) Show its con- 
nection with psychology. 

S. Is the "sense of touch" a special sense, as com- 
j)ared with th*3 other sensx^s? 

9- What effect has alcohol on (a) the heart? (b) the 
;stoma.eh ? (e) the capillaries? (d) the brain? 

10. How would you explain the evil effects of (a) re- 
S)reathing? (b) raj^id .eating? (c) tobacco? 



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THEORY AND PRACTICE 

I Second or Third Gi'ade Certificate.! 

1. \Vhat is the real purpose of education ? 

2. What is the purpose of recitation? 

8. (a) Give necessary qualifications in a teaclier to se- 
cure the best results from recitations, (b) How do you 
economize time in a recitation? 

4. Name the requisites in a teacher to secure good gov- 
erniueut. 

5. Discuss oral instruction: (a) its use; (b) its abuse. 

6. What is the difference in tcllino- 2i thing and in tMih- 
ini^ it ? 

7. (a) What is tiie synthetic method of teacliingV 
(b) The analytic? (c) Which is more applicable to pri- 
mary instruction, and why? 

8. What do you understr.nd l)y the educational maxim : 
'' Proceed from the known to the unknown "? 

9-10. Have you attended a Teachers' Summer Schodl 
this year ? 

THEORY AND PRACTICE, 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) Of what advantage to the teacher is a knowledge 
of Psychology? (b) History of Education? 

2. (a) Define education as a science, (b) Give four fun- 
damental principles to be observed in teaching. 

3. When and to what extent should teaching be ob- 
jective? 

4. What is meant by the following faculties: (a) pre- 
sentative; (b) representative; (c) elaborative ? 

5. When do you think the i^upil should begin the study 
of abstract subjects? 

6. (a) What is attention? (b) Its relation to educa- 
tional operation ? 

7. Explain the analytic and synthetic processes, and 
explain their relative value with the teacher. 

8. (a) Should the teacher's course of t^iwdiy h^ pari passu 
with his pupils ? (\)) What should it be ? 

9. Name incentives to study : (a) proper; ()>) imprope]-. 
Modes of punishment: (c) proper; (d) improper. 

10. Have you attended a Teachers' Summer Schoui 
this year ? 

CIVIL GOVERNlMENT. 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. What is the object of introducing civil g-overnnienr 
into the course of study ? 

2. (a) Name the law-making powers of a State, (bl 
Explain three processes necessary to vnake a law. 



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3. (a) What is the advantage of having- n legislative 
body divided into two branches? (b) And what is the wis- 
dom of the third process before a bill can become law ? 

4. How m;!v a bill which has been vetoed become a 
law ? 

5. (a) Name three county officers and define their du- 
ties, (b) What legr.l requiri^ments must they comply with 
before entering- upon th( ir duties'? 

6. What legal requirement must teachers comply with 
before entering upon their duties? 

7. Name five duties of a teacher, as prescribed by law. 

8. Describe the Australian ballot sy.-,tem. 

9. (a) What are the three departments of government? 
(b) What officers represent each in a county? 

10. (a) What conditions must a teacher cojiiply with 
before being entitled to his l?\st month's salary? (b) How 
often, and to whom, must the county superintendent re- 
port? (c) How and l\v whom is the county school fund aj)- 
portioned? (d) Who has the aj^pointment of teachers; then 
what is the legal mode of procedure to obtain a school ? 
(e) Should a vacancy occur in the office of county superin- 
tendent, by whom and how would it be filled ? 

ALGEBRA, 

[First Grade Ceriificate.] 

1. (a) What is algebra? (b) Define symb(jls; (c) equa- 
tion, (d) On what does the degree of an equation depend ? 

2. Resolve a" — b** into its ].rhne factors. 
8. Divide axy+x^+y^-l by y+x-1. 

■1. (a) Prove that (x+y)'>=l. (b) Prove that a =>=— 

a-i b-2 c3 mn 

5. Reduce ^^ \^—i (.— i m— f ^'^ ^^^ equivalent fraction 

liaving positive exponents. 

6. Find the greatest common divisor of x=*-|-Tx-— x — 7, 
x3-[-5x'''— x-5 and x'^— 2x+l. 

7. Find the value of x in the equation, 5x— ^ (x-|-8)=U. 

8. Required the number of tv'o figures, which added 
to the number ol)tained by changing the place of the digits 
gives 77; and subtracted from it leaves 27. 

9. Solve the equation ^+^ ^4x-3 

x-1 x-f9 

10. A certr.in farm is a rectangle, whose length is twice 
its ijreadth. If it should be enlarged 20 rods in length, and 
24 I'odR in breadth, its area would be doubled. How many 
acres in the f ai'm ? 



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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) In what respect is the earth like a magnet? (b) 
What and where are the magnetic poles? (c) What is 
meant by the "line of no variation ?" 

2. (a) Give three evidences of the internal heat of 
the eartli. (b) Describe the formation of a volcano; (c) a 
geyser. 

3. (a) What is a plateau ? (b) Name some of the i^la- 
teau regions of the earth with their distinctive features. 

4. (a) What hemisphere has most land? (b) In which 
is the Iiighest civilization, and why ? 

5. (a) What is the accepted theory as to the formation 
of mountains ? (b) Compare the perpendicular reliefs of 
Europe and Africa. 

6. (a) Wliat is a valley? (b) a canon? (c) When are 
valleys transverse ? (d) When longitudinal ? 

7. (a) Give tlie theory of tides, (b) Draw a diagram 
illustrating spring and neap tides. 

8. (a) How are islands classified? Describe: (b) Con- 
tinental islands; (c) oceanic; (d) volcanic. 

9. (a) What determines the range of plant and animal 
life? (b) Industries of man? 

10. How is the saltness of the sea accounted for ? 



OCTOBER i6, 1894. 

[SPECIAL.] 



ORTHOGRAPHY, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Illustrate with words all the diacritical marks of 
the vowel 0. 

2. (a) What is meant by tlie syllabication of words? 

(b) Separate the following into their syllables and mark 
the accented sylla])le : Leniency, indefensible, lamentation, obliga- 
tory, vehement. 

3. (a) Define a primitive word ; (b) a derivative word; 

(c) a com.pound word, (d) Form a derivative and a com- 
pound word with man. 

4. How are words designated as to the number of their 
syllables ? 

0. Form and define a word with each of the following 
prefixes : itn, dis, be, ante, en. 



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6. Form and define an adjective with eacli of the fol- 
lowing suffixes : er, is/i, ible, oiis, en. 

7. Give the rule for spelling the second of each of the 
following pairs of words : l>og, bogg)'; note, noting; begin, begin- 
ner; victory, victorious ; daisy, daisies. 

8. Give the reasons for spelling the second word in 
each of the following pairs of words: change, changeable; shoe, 
shoeing; hate, hateful; prefer, preference ; singe, singeing. 

9. Write and define a homonym corresponding to each 

<5f the following words: one, beau,jye, choir, holy. 

U). Correct the following words spelled phonetically: 
kon-shens, kon-ker, kre-a-r;i-h'l, men-azh-e-ry, paj-ant-ry, 
rek-wi-zish-un, blas-fc-niy, am-a-tur, lik-wi-date, suf-flsh- 
ent. 

READING, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) What constitutes good reading? (b) Name three 
pre-requisites to the correct reading of a selection. 

2. Give some special directions for the reading of 
poetry. 

y. How, and in what respect, are punctuation points a 
guide to correct residing ? 

4. AVhat method of teaching primary reading do you 
employ? Why? 

5. Wliat do you understand by rhetorical pauses? 
6-10. Read selection given by examiner. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certilicate.] 

1. Into how many, and what periods, does United 
States history divide itself? 

2. (a) Give the liistory of the Whig party, (b) What 
were some of its principles ? 

ii. Describe the battle of Shiloh, giving important re- 
sults. 

4. What is meant by (a) a protective tariff ? (b) tariff 
for revenue? (c) free trade? (d) internal revenue? (e) civil 
service ? 

5. How did the United States acquire (a) Texas ? (b) 
Florida? (c) Kentucky? (d) Arkansfis ? (e) Oregon? 

6. Why are the following places historic: (a) Mont- 
gomery, Ala. ? (b) Fortress Monroe? (c) Appomattox? (d) 
Philadelphia? (<-) Hampton Roads? 

7. (a) Whc.u was the Monroe doctrine? and (b) when, 
if ever, has the United States government officially en- 
dorsed it ? 

8. Who was (a) Daniel Boone? (b) General Custer (c) 
Kit Carson? (d) "Captain Jack "? (e) John Brown? 



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9. What where the causes leading to the war of 1812? 

10. Mention five events of the present year of historic 
significance. Wliy? 

ARITHMETIC, 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. The quotient is $76, the remainder $64, the dividend 
$56,000, what is the divisor ? 

2. Wliat are the five prime factors of 10010? 

3. A, B, and C have respectively $680, $1,134, and $1,386, 
with wliich they agree to purchase horses at the liig-hest 
price per head that will allow each man to invest all his 
money. How many horses can each man buy? 

4.' What is the smallest number of bushels of wheat 
that will fvW an even number of boxes, whether they hold 
36, 48, 80, 320 or 432 bushels ? 

5. If 2^ acres of land cost $7|, how many acres can bi- 
bought for $65| ? 

6. (1.26X34.9H-.1047) -(88.62^.211)= ? 

7. Add 525 sq. 1., 91 p., 9',/,-! sq. ch., and J sq. mi., and 
find the exact number of acres. 

8. If a box is 4 by 5 feet at the liottom, how high must 
it be to hold exactly 48 bushels, when \\ cucic feet is count- 
ed as a bushel? 

9. Wliat was the gain or loss per cent, on the transac- 
tion, when two horses were sold for $99 each ; on the sale of 
whicli there was a loss of 10 per cent, on one and a gain of 
10 per cent, on the other ? 

10. $500. Tallahassee, January 2, 1893. 
Three months after date I promise to pay J. B. Doe, or or- 
der, five hundred dollars, with interest" from date at the 
rate of 8 per cent, per annum till paid. For value received. 

W. N. Slowpay. 
Payments endorsed as follows: July 4, 1893, $220g; Dec. 
4, 1893, $10; June 24, 1894, $12; (Sept. 16,'l894, $206.80. " What 
will satisfy the note Oct. 16, 1894? 

ARITHMETIC, 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

i7A-9|-4-^ 

1. Simplify TTTlTl 

2. Divide 375 by .75, and .75 by 375, and find the sum 
and the difference of the quotients. 

3. A tradesman marks his goods at 25 per cent, above 
cost, and deducts 12 per cent, of the amount of a customer's 
Ibill. for cash; what per cent, does he make? 

4. What sum of money at 6 per cent, annually com- 
pounded interest, will amount to $2,703 in 1 year, 4 months? 



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0. A, B and C formed a parinership, and cleared $12,- 
0(H). A put in $8,000 for 4 months, and then added $2,000 for 
H months; B put in $l(i,000 for 8 months, and then with- 
drawuig- half his capital, continued the remainder 5 montlis 
longer; C jjut in $13,5(K) for 7 montlis. How divide the 
profit ? 

6. A man lost ^, }, and I of , his money, and then had 
$2,()(X) left; what sum had he originally, and how much per 
cent, had he lost ? 

7. Extract the cube root of 30.625, correct to three deci- 
mal places. 

8. When it is 10 o'clock in Boston what time is it in 
Jacksonville, the longitude of Boston I)eing 71'' 7' 45" W. 
from Greenwich, that of Jacksonville being- Sl° 47' 50" ? 

9. Sold a house for .$5;000 and thereby gained 20 per 
cent. Siiould i ha'^-e have gained or lost, and how much 
per cent., if i Iiad sold it lor $4,000? 

10- What is the diil'erence between the true and bank 
■discount of $2o0, dut^ 10 months hence, at 7 per cent.? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

[Second or Third Grade CertiHcJte.j 

1. Name the eight parts of speech. 

2. How may you tell the part of speech of any word? 

3. What parts of speech have inflection ? 

4. Decline (a) w/iick, (b) e//ou, (q) nnin-servant. 

5. Give the possessive case, singular and plura), of 
Mussulman, madam, fly, Knight-Templar, staff. 

6. Give the past tense and past participle of the verbs 
fee, fly, lie- (to recline), loy, sit, set. berctwe, dreaiii, cl >the, go. 

7. O, tJiat is doing \\xAt what ] wanted /^«< to do! Parse the 
words italicized. 

8-9. Analyze, by dia<?ram or otherwise, the sentence: 
*' If you ])ave built castles in the air, your work need not 
be lost; tliat is whe)"e they .should be; put foundations un- 
der them." 

10. C'orrect the following, giving reason for each cor- 
rection : 

(a) 1 fe^r I will not pass the examination. 

(b) Please learn me how to study. 

(c) Somebody told me, I forgot who. 

(d) What signilies in'omise without performance. 

(e) Every examinee may keej) their questions. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[First Grade Certittcate.] 

1. (a) How are sentences classified? ,(b) Give tlie class- 
ification of phrases. 

2. Write the plural of the following: Ifandjul, sou-iu-Uuv, 
Jimes, chimney, Jireniau. larva, Knight-Teinflar, Mr. and ?. 



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3. Give the synoiasis of drop through all the tenses of 
the Indicative mood, passive voice, using my grade ^.a th>^^ 
subject. 

4. Illustrate by sentences the uses of tu/iat: (a) as an 
interjection; (b) an adjective; (c) pronoun; (d) adverb. 

5. Parse tlie words in italics in the following sentence: 
'' Near to tlie bank of the fiver o\-rshado7ued by oaks, from 
whose branches garlands of Spanish moss and the mystic 
miiitleto':. Jiaunted, such as the Druids cut down with golden 
liatchets at Yule-tide slood, sec/uded Awd still, the house of thn 
herdsman." 

6. Select the propositions in the above and tell which 
are principal and wliicli subordinate. 

7. Make a list of the prepositions with their terms of 
relation. 

8. Make a list of tlie adjectives in tlie sentence and 
compare them if any admit of it. 

y. Diagram or analyze tlie sentence according to Har- 
vey or Reed & Kellogg. 

10. Parse all the thats in the sentence: That that that 
that that boy parsed is not that that that that teacher told 
him to parse, is plain. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate,] 

1. What and where is Corea ? 

2. (a) What constitutes the empire of Japan ? (b) what 
is its capital? (c) its population? (d) the principal exports? 
(e) and what can you say of the character of the people? 

3. (a) Bound the Chinese empire; name (b) its princi- 
pal rivers; (c) neighboring waters; (d) important cities; 
(e) and chief exports. 

4. Name and locate all large bodies of water lying 
either in or around North America. 

5. Name the two most southern continental capes of 
each hemisphere. 

6. Locate the following and tell what each is: (a) Suez; 
(b) Bogota; (c) Dnieper; (dj St. Elias; (e) Blanco. 

7. (a) What is the nearest distance in statute miles be- 
tween two places on the equator situated respectively in 
longitude 137° E., and longitude 175° W.? (b) When it is 
Thursday noon at the former, what is the day and hour at 
the latter? 

8. What advantage to commerce would the cutting of 
the Panama canal afford ? 

9. Describe the Mississippi and its value to the United 
States. 

10. At what stage of the pupiPs advancement, and 
how, would you begin the teaching of geography? 



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COMPOSITION, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.J 

1. Give three rules for the use of the (a) period, aiui 
(b) explain the use of double and also of single quotation 
points. 

2. (a) What is the purpose of capital letters? (b) 
(live three rules for their use. 

3. Give three rules for choice of words. 

4. Give rule lor the placing of modifiers. 

5. Name the essentials of a well-written composition, 

6. Write a composition not exceeding 200 words on one 
of the following- subjects: 

1. How to Teach Reading. 

2. The Pleasures of Gountry School Teaching. 

3. How to Succeed as a Teacher. 

Neatness 10 

Spelling and Grammar 5 each 

Style 10 

Thought .-.10 

Choice of words and arrangement. . 5 each 

PHYSIOLOGY, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate,] 

1. What change in the blood takes place in (a,) the 
lungs? (h) the capillaries? 

2. (a) What is a gland? (b) Name three of the largest 
glands in the human body? 

3. Name and describe the fluids that enter into the 
process of digestion. . 

4. Why is rapid eating injurious to health ? 

5. (a) What is meant by decussation of nerves? and 
(1)) where does this take place? 

6. (a) How would you determine as to whether an ar- 
tery or a vein had been cut ? (b) If in a limb, how would 
you proceed in eacli case ? 

7. (a) How would you proceed in case one of your pu- 
pils fractured a limb? (b) How would you distinguish be- 
tween a sprain and a fracture, and wha't would you do in 
case of a severe sprain ? 

8. To what class of organs does the skin belong, and 
what is its special function ? 

9. Why are bright pupils generally very fond of active 
outdoor games ? 

10. Why should little children be given frequent "re- 
cesses " ? 



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THEORY AND PRACTICE. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Distinguish between a lesson and a recitation. 

2. Give five fundamental principles of teaching. 

8. Distinguish between to instruct, to teach, to educate. 

4. Where and to what extent should object teaching be 
employed in arithmetic. 

5. Name in order of their greatest relative activity the 
principal mental powers. 

6. How many recitations a day should a child in the 
Third Reader grade have, and in wliat studies ? 

7. To what extent should the teacher assist pupils in 
tile preparation of lessons? 

H. Should prizes, honor maiks, etc., ever be used as in- 
centives to study or good conduct? Give reasons for your 
answer. 

9. What daily prepavation on tlie part of the teachei' 
is essential to good teaching? 

10. What works bearing on the subject of teaching or 
education have you read since last October. 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 

[First Grade Certiflcate.]_ 

1. (a) What is the reason for having two houses of 
L'ongress? (b) Why chosen differently and for different 
periods ? 

2. What sovereign powers have the individual States 
of the Union ? 

3. What is meant by (a) an ex post facto law ? (b) bill of 
attainder? (c) writ of /^^//^t^?.? corpus? (d) "the right to bear 
arms"? (e) v.'hat constitutional i)ro vision with regard to 
each ? 

4. (a) What was tlie purpose in giving the President 
the veto power? (b) W^hy was it not made fimil? 

5. What kind of bills can originate from the House of 
Representatives only? Why? 

6. How are members of the Supreme Court of the 
United States chosen, and for what length of term? 

7. How are members of the Supreme Court of Florida 
chosen, and for what length of term ? 

8. How many grades of certificates issued from the 
Department of Education in this State, and on what condi- 
tions ? 

9. What constitutes the county scliool fund, and for 
what may it be disbursed? 

10. What school funds are distributed from the Statr 
Treasurer's office, and on what basics is the apportiomnent 
madf^ 



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ALGEBRA. 

[First (irade Certificate.] 

1. Find the G. C. D. of 6x3y2+10x2y3+5xv^ and ax^y 
— axy3+x3y-xy«. 

2. Write the factors of x— 2— y— 2; and x— y. 

8. Required the sinn, difference, product and quotient 
a-(-b a— b 

a — D a-j-u 

4. Show that x-m= — 

5. Write the equations whose roots are —7 and +5. 

6. Find by factoring the value of x in the "equations, 
x - - inx=ni n — n x . 

7. Find the value of x in equation, ox— ^ (x-|-3)=14. 

11 11 

8. —+—=5, and ——— = 1. Find x and y. 

9. Find the values of x in equation, mx^-f nx=pq. 

10. If a certain young lady were as many months 
older as she is inchts in height, she would be 25; but if she 
were taller by ,'„ as m.'vny inches i.s she is months old, she 
would be 7 feet high. Recjuiretl her age and height. 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. What is the thickness of the earth's crust? 

2. What elements mainly compose it? 

3. What reason for believing some connection exists 
I)etween volcanoes jsnd earthquakes? 

4. On what does the amount of water in a ba.sin de- 
pend ? 

5. Account for the numerous lakes in Florida, and the 
sweetness and clearness of their waters. 

6. What cjiuses the phosphorescence of the sea? 

7. To what three classes of ocean currents does differ- 
ence of temperature give rise? 

8. (a) What is a waterspout? (b) a cyclone? (c) a tor- 
nado? (d) Whfit is meant by the avz/tv of a cyclone ? (e) 
Why do the cyclones originating in the West Indies move 
northward ? 

9. Where are the largest rainless districts of the globe 
and why are these regions rainless? 

10. What modifications of climate do the earth's mo- 
tions produce ? 



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MAY, 1895. 

ORTHOGRAPHY, 

TFirst, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Illustrate with words all the diacritical marks of 
the vowel u. 

2. Syllabicate, mark the primary accent, and give each 
vowel its proper diacritical mark in the following words : 

Leniency, Ifimentable, coadjutor, vehemency, hygiene. 

3. Give and define a homonyn to each of the follow- 
in*^: Sucker, marshal, collar, assent, sweet. 

4. Form and define a word with each of the following 

prefixes: Mis, ad, dis,.anti, extra. 

5. Form a word, and define the derivative, by adding a 
suffix meaning: Oite to whom, imthout, some'cohat, fold, office of. 

6. Name the suffix and give its meaning in the follow- 
in f words: Divisible, doubtful, waspish, shorten, globule. 

7. Add the suffixes en, ness, ist, able, erne to the following 
words in order, and give rule for spelling the derivative: 
Glad, dainty, copy, serz'ice, defer. 

8. Discriminate between the following synonyms: 
Bring 'Aw(\. fetch, indolent and lazy, economy a,nd parsimony, doctrine 
and precept. 

9-10. Spell correctly the following: Fleesy, flimzy, 
kolera, retreive, zar, absess, skollop, bronkitis, sla (a vehi- 
cle for traveling on snow), likoris, precede, seperation, ses- 
sion (a yielding), rubarb, privalege, pedagog, effishensy, 
desizion, enuff, striknin. 

READING. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 
(EXAMIXER WILL SELECT FROM A FIFTH READER.) 

1. Read a paragraph of prose 1 to 50 

2. Read an extract of i^oetry 1 to 50 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. AVhat -VAas the basis of the English claim to 
America ? 

2. Whence and why did the Puritans come to 
America? 

3. What was the JVIonroe doctrine ? 

4. Name one Spanish, one Dutch, one English and two 
French explorers of North America, and state where each 
made his explorations. 

5. Name five acts of the British government that 
tended to precipitate the Revolutionary war. 



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6. What practice was inaugurated by Jackson when 
he became President? 

7. (a) What caused the rupture between President Ty- 
ler and his party? (b) Between President Johnson and 
his party? 

8. Describe the battle of Gettysburg, and name the 
prominent commanders in each army. 

9. Why was there one, and what was the United States 
Electoral Commission? 

10. Name several important historical events that have 
occurred during the p;!st lour years. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 
[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Tell of all the important acquisitions of territory 
I'rom other countries to the United States. 

2. (iive causes, immediate and remote, that led to the 
VA\\\ war. 

i5. (a) Wlio was DeSoto, and what became of him ? 
(b) When and l)y wliom was St. Augustine founded? 

4. State accurately the doctrines of the Republican 
party concerning slavery when first victorious. 

5. Mention the names of five inventoi's prominent in 
American history, with a brief statement concerning each. 

H. P^xplain what is meant by the "Geneva Award" 
and the "Alabama Claims." 

7. Sketch briefly the acquisition of Florida by the 
United States. 

8. Name five of the most important public measures 
that have claimed tiie attention of Congress during the ad- 
ministrations of Presidents Harrison and Cleveland (last 
term.) 

9. What do you aim to accomplish for your pupils by 
the study of history? 

10. Give a brief' outline of your method of teaching 
history, and of hearing a historylesson. 

ARITHMETIC, 

[Second or Third Grade (.'ertiHcate.J 

gj^f~\\\ the solution of problems, every process must 
be indicated — mere answers will not be acceiDted. 

1. (a) Express in figures: Twenty-nine billion, ninety- 
five thousand, forty-five; (b) in words, 20,200,010,010; (c) 
by Roman notation, 605; (d) by Arabic notation, MDL; 
(e) in words, 625.625. 

2. Write iii the fovm of an equation, using the proper 
signs, what each of the three terms in subtraction, thfe 
three in multiplication, and the four in division, equals. 

8. A has four tracts of land containing, respectively 
860, 288, 648 and 720 acres. He wants to divide them into 



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the largest possible farms of equal size, dividing each into 
an exact number, (a) How many acres can he put into a 
farm? (b) How many farms will he have? 

4. Multiply together the sum, the difference, the prod- 
uct, and the quotient of | and g, (consider g as the divisor.) 

5. In how many days will A, B and C together do a 
piece of work, which A can do alone in 3 days, B in 5 days, 
and C in 6 days ? 

6. Divide fifty millionths by six hundred twenty-five 
ten-thous:;ndths and express the answer in words. 

7. Eeduce f**o of a rod to the decimal of a mile and 
write the answer in words. 

8. How much less will it cost to fence 40 acres in 
the form of a square than in the form of a rectangle witli 
its length four times the breadth, the price being $2.50 a 
rod ? 

9. Sold two lots for .$i2(X) each, gaining 20 per" cent on 
one and losing 20 per cent, on the otiier. Did I gain or lose, 
and what per cent, on the transaction ? 

10. If 5 horses eat as much as 6 cows, and 8 horses and 
12 cows eat 12 tons of hay in 40 days, how much hay will be 
needed to keep 7 horses and 15 coavs 65 days? 

ARITHMETIC, 

[First Grade Certificate.] 
^^r*In the solution of prol>lems, every process must be 
indicated — mere answers will not l)e accepted. 

1. (a) What part of a yard is tlie smallest piece of silk 
from which an exact number of quilt pieces containing 4, 9, 
16, 24, or 36 square inches may be cut? (b) How many 
pieces containing 24 square inches mav be cut out of the 
silk ? 

2. Multiply 625 by .003 and divide the product by the 
square root of 39.0625, and write your answer in words. 

8. It is 10 minutes past 1 p. m. where A is; it is 20 min- 
utes befoi'e 9 a. m. where B is; (a) wnich direction is B 
from A ? (b) How far are they apart, supposing a degree 
to be 50 miles on their latitude ? 

4. A well 3 feet in diameter and 12 feet deej), will con- 
tain how many gallons of water ? 

5. How many bushels will fill exactly level full a 
wheat house 12 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 6 feet high on 
one side and 8 feet high on the other, counting 1| cubic feet 
to a bushel ? 

6. A merchant mai'ks cloth at .$2 a yard, so that he 
may drop 10 per cent, and yet gain 20 per cent. Find cost 
price. 

7. What is the profit in buying opium at 75 cents an 
ounce, avoirdupois, and selling it at $1 an ounce, troy ? 



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8. If a cannon ball 3 inches in diameter weighs 10 lbs., 
what will one 8 inches in diameter weigh ? 

9. At what price should -4 per cent, bonds be bought 
(brokerage \ of 1 per cent.) to yield an income of 5 per cent? 

10. if a ladder standing perpendicularly just reaching 
the top of a wall 80 feet high, had its base drawn out 18 feet 
fronl the wall, how far was the upper end from the top 
of the wall ? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

ISecond or Third Grade (;ertiHc'»te.] 

1. Write on each and explain the elements of (a) sim- 
ple sentence; (b) complex sentence; (c) compound sentence. 

2. Write the plurals of the following: Prospectus, court- 
jiiartioi, man- servant, g, gas, syllainis, money, spKonful, aid-de-camp, 
Duxdam. 

3. Write the possessive smgular and plural of man, 
J>rotlier-in-la'o, country, lie, enemy, 

4. (a) What parts of speech are inflected? (b) Give 
the terminal inflections and precise use of each. 

5. Compai'e,4'"c<'(/, /"/'A', HI, mucli, luuidsome. 

6. Give the principal parts of lie, lay, set, sit, sing, rise, 
A-nozo, t>ear {bring forth), raise, Jly. 

7. Write the synopsis in the passive voice of the verb 
hear witli thou in both the indicative and subjunctive nioods. 

8. Analyze or diagram: We teachers, being constantly 
associated with children, become hermits while fitting- 
others for society. 

9. Parse in the sentence above /« /////, all nouns, pro- 
nouns, verbs and participles. 

10- In the sentence, " Whoever is deceived thereby is 
not wise," j^arse lohoever in full. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

JFlrsi Grade Certittcate.] 

1. Write the ioos.sessive j)lural of ox, /:hitd, fox, mouse, 
Jiero, -ivJiicJi, it, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Smith, Knight- Templar. 

2. (a) (iive two general rules for the comparison of ad- 
jectives- (b) Compare and give reason fox so comparing 
each : Thin, clever, wooden, merry, nigh, ample, grey, universal, shy, 
heautiful. 

3. Halve a table of pronouns, give first the class, then 
grotip into two adjacent columns those of each class used 
as nouns, or used as adjectives. 

4. Write a short sentence illustrating: (a) an intransi- 
tive verb used as transitive; (b) a transitive verb used in- 
transitively; (c) a verb with incomph'te prtdication; (d) 
.an impersonal verb; (e) show that transitive verbs only ad- 
mit of a passive use- 



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5. Write the inflection in the present and past tenses 
in both the indicative and subjunctive moods of the verb 

(a) /(' l>e, (b) to steal. 

6. Write the perfect participle of l>e, hope, split, se-w, so'ct\ 
freeze, fly, tread, seek, sit, 

7. Give complete analysis of the following;: 

'■'Breathes there the man with soul so dead? 
Who never to himself hath said, 
'This is my own, my native land ! ' " 

8. Diagram, according to Harvey or Reed & Kellogg, 
the above sentence. 

9. Parse, in full, he who, first, taught and what in the sen- 
tence: " He who first taught the principles of ChrLstianity 
knew well what would be the consequences." 

10. Parse 7c'//(^/ in each of the following: (a) Pay what 
you owe. (b) What pleases you? (c) What vessel is that? 
(d) What with entreaty, what with threatening, I succeed- 
ed, (e) What! is thy servant a dog? 

GEOGRAPHY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certittcate.] 

1. Define the following: Promontory, peninstila, inlet, 
sound, strait. 

2. Locate and describe Japan as to its size, physical 
features, population and industries. 

8. (a) Bound Korea, {b) Describe tlie country, (c) 
What ol the number and ciiaracter of its people? (d) 
What of its products and industries? 

4. (a) Define latitude and longitude, (b) Is the length 
of a degree of longitude greater in Florida or Michigan ? 
(c) Why ? 

5. (a) Show the relation between the ijhysical and po- 
litical conditions of a country, (b) Show how the physical 
features determine the intlustries, commerce and routes of 
trade. 

6. Describe the German empire, telling (a) of the num- 
ber of States composing it; (b), name the four largest; (c> 
character of the people; (d) chief industries and manufac- 
tured products, (e) What of her educational system ? 

7. (a) Describe the situation and shape of Mexico, (b) 
What is said of its shores? (c) What of its surface, peo- 
ple and farm of government? 

8. What of the size, physical features, people, prod- 
ucts, and government of Cuba? 

9. Draw a diagram of a township, sub-divide the six- 
teenth section into quar-quarters, and locate thus (x) a 
school hor.se in the sw'4 of nei4. 

10. (a) Into what three great sections is Florida natu- 
rally divided by two large rivers? (b) Name all the cou-i- 
tie&, in the section in which yo-u take tlie exam-iiiation. 



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COMPOSITION. 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 
1. Write an essay of not less than 200 words, o^ivinjr 
special attention to diction, capitalization and punctuation, 
on one of the following subjects: 

(a) Present Educational Tendencies. 

(b) The Ideal School Teacher. 

(c) The Value of Daily Composition in Schools. 
(The Grading Committee will mark the composition, 

according to value of thought and correctness, from I to 
100.) 

COMPOSITION, 

[First Grade Certificate.] 
1. Write an essay of not less than 2(K» nor more than 
aoo words, giA'ing especial attention to capitalization, 
punctuation, diction and style, on one of the following sub- 
jects: 

(a) Corporal Punishment in Schools. 

(b) Best Mode of Examining Teacliers. 

(c) Benefits of Teachers' Associations. 

PHYSIOLOGY, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Locate the metacarpal bonos and give tlieir number, 

2. Name three offlce.s of the skin. 

8. Describe the human skeleton, giving the number, 
classification, structure and composition of the bones. 

4. Explain iiow blood circulates through the bones. 

5. Name and describe the organs of circulation. 

6. Name the principal organs and describe the process 
of iespii'ation. 

7. (a) Name the organs of digestion; (b) the digestive 
fluids and the kind of food upon which each acts. 

S. Name five articles of food rich in albumen. 

9. Discuss the influence of climate in determining the 
kind of food the people require. 

10. What effect has alcohol (a) upon the blood ? (b) 
nerves? (c) brain? (d) Name three nai'cotic.s and def?cribe 
their effects upon the human body. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. When the lesson is not well learned for today, w<5uld 
you give it over again for tomorrow ? Give reason for your 
<inswer. 

2. Why are language and aritlnnetic two of the most 
important .school studies ? 



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3. (a) Should the teacher ever experiment, or smiply 
be content to do as some one else has done? (b) All the 
best methods of instruction have been found out, haven't 
they ? 

4. Why, and in what way, should the teacher make 
daily preparation for school work ? 

5. (a) What is the jDurpose of a recitation ? (b) Tell 
tlie difference between a recitation and a lesson. 

6. How many recirations a day should a child in the 
Fourth Reader have, and in wliat studies ? 

7. How ai"e vacancies in the followint? offices filled in 
this State? (a) State Superintendent; (ij) County Super- 
intendent; (c) School Board; (d) Supervisor or Trustee; 
(e) Assistant Teacher. 

8. Define the duties of a teacher under the laws in this 
State. 

9. Give some of tlie powers and duties of County Su- 
perintendents. 

10. What is the purpose of education? (a) From a 
political standpoint? (b) From a personal standpoint? 
(c) From an etliical standpoint? 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. What are the Constitutional requirements (a) for a 
President? (b) Senator? (c) Representative? 

2. (a) How many States had to give assent before the 
Constitution of the I' nited States was adopted ? (b) What 
proijortion must ratify an amendment before it becomes tlie 
law? (c) Would an amendment be binding- on a State 
voting against its ratification ? 

3. ia) How would a Vice-President be elected, if no 
one received a majority of the electoral college? (b) Has 
one ever been elected in that way ? 

4. (a) What constitutes treason? (b) How punished? 

5. Mention five important personal rights guaranteed 
by the Constitution of the United States. 

6. (a) Name three prohibitions on Congress; ^b) three 
on the States. 

7. Name the elective State officers of Florida, and give 
length of term and salary of each. 

8. Explain how the State Constitution may be amend- 
ed without holding a Constitutional Convention. . 

9. (a) Explain the '' Reciprocity Clause " in the " Mc- 
Kiuley Rill.'" (b) Give the main featai-es of the "'Aus- 
tralian Ballot System." 

10. (a) Upon wliat bitsis is public school fund now 
apportioned by the State? (b) What are the limits of 
school age? (jc) For wliat causes may a County Superin- 
tendent annul a teacher's certificate? Td), Wlien a certifl- 



riorida i'nifonii Examiuation Queslioits, May, iSg^. 



cate is unjustly annull'-cl or withlu'ld by a County SuiuTin- 
tendent, what remedy hai> a teacher? (e) Name and loeare 
the State educational institutions. 

ALGEBRA. 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Resolve x"— y® into four factors. 

2. Expand (2a-|^2b)^ by the binomial theorem. 

3. Resolve x— ^x-'-j-x"' into five prime factors. 

-a* 

4. Pro\ e that —^^ix^ 

X X x-2 

5. (liven -:::--|-3=-j- — — ^- to find x. 

O -r D 

H. Find the value of x in the equation, x2+2x— 44+ 



Vx^+2x -44=42. 

7. x^-|-3x3*=10, to find values of x. 

S. A boatman who can row 12 miles an hour in still 
water, is 7 hours in rowing to a certain point up the river, 
and 5 hours in returning. At what rate per hour does tlie 
liver flow ? 

9. (Uven x3-fy3=:iy9, and x+y=9, to find the values of 
X and y. 

10. Solve 2v "+,^ ^x+v7J^^^| . ^nd 

x+vx'^-9 

=(x-2)3. 

^-r x-^-9 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

[first Grade Cevtificate.] 

1. Why IS there no dew on cloudy nights? 

2. Why is it that C;ilifornia has its rainy season in tlie 
winter, and Ploridji in the summer? 

8. Describe and account for the difference in climate 
I)etween the east and west coasts of the United States. 

4. What cJimntic influence does a high iriountain or a 
cliain of mountains exert upon the surrounding country? 

5. Why are the tops of mountains colder than the"^ val- 
leys or plains at their bases ? 

6. (a) What family of plants is the largest contriI)utor 
to human needs and comforts ? (b) Show how. 

7. Why are some regions of Western United States 
comparatively rainless ? 

8. What effect upon the climate, soil and surface of a 
country does cutting awtiy its forests produce? 

9. Define and account for artesian wells. 

10. Describe the barometer and its uses. 

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SEPTEMBER, 1895. 

ORTHOGRAPHY, 

fPirst, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Define letter, syllable, word, root, affix, and give an 
example of each. 

2. Indicate by the use of the proper diacritical marks 
the pronunciation of the following words: cage, has, ink, 
cent, her. 

3. Syllabicate and accentuate the following words: 
preferable, mischievous, deficit, irreparable, dolorous. 

4. Give the meaning of each of the following prefixes, 
and illustrate by defining a word f oriiied with each : un, 
pre, se, syn, meta. 

5. Define homonyn. Write and define each of the fol- 
lowing, and one or more homonyms for each : ascent, coun- 
cil, rain, metal. 

6. Define synonym. Illustrate the correct u«e of each of 
tlie following, and one synonym for eacii : danger, genius, 
poverty, protect. 

7. Separate the following words into root and affix, 
give the original meaning of tlie root, and show its relation 
to tlie given word: submit, coincidence, intention, con- 
spiracy. 

8. To certain roots join the proper prefixes or suffixes 
in order to form derivatives signifying: (a) to go before; 

(b) to lead forth; (c) to make worthy; (d) to send away; 
(e) written by hand. 

9. To the words l>usy^ traffic^ conceal^ /"'y-, trace^ join the 
suffixes ly, ing, ed, ous, able, respectively, and give the 
rule for spelling the derivatives thus formed. 

10. Correct tiie spelling of the following: scizers, diz- 
olve. fude, tung, ofis, diferance, ^simetry, cajJijilary, seper- 
ible, descission. 

READING, 

[First, Second or Ttiird Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) What is reading? (b) Define articulation, (c) 
Give an error in articulation. 

2. (a) What is emphasis? (b) JMention three ways of 
using it. 

3. (a) Is there a difference in quantity of tone and/Z/r/^ of 
voice in reading? (b) Explain your answer. 

4. What drills do you give pupils as to: (a) position of 
body? (b) holding of book? (c) breathing? (d) gesture? (e) 
facial expression ? 

5. How would you conduct a reading lesson in a large 
class, looking to: (a) correcting errors? (b) naturalness? 

(c) mastery? 



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6-10. Read an extract of ten lines each of prose and 
poetry for your examiner. 

(Examiner will grade from to 25 eacli extract read 
and deliver same to the Grading Committee to be added by 
them to the grading of the questions above.) 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[First, Second or Third Grade C'ertirtcate.l 

1. (a) What portions of America were claimed by the 
English, Dutch, P'rench and Spanish, and upon what did 
eacli base its claim to such territory ? (b) Give name and 
date of the fir.-^t settlement by each. 

2. Give a brief account of: (a) Champlain's voyages 
and discoveries; (1)) Heriumdo DeSoto's explorations.' 

8. (a) (^roup the colonies according to tlie kind of gov- 
ernment under which they were ruled, (b) Show the dif- 
ferences between these forms of government. 

4. (a) State the causes which led to the French and 
Indian wj r. (b) Give the names and dates of three import- 
ant battles of this war. 

5. (a) jS'ame tliree oppressive measures enforced by the 
British government tliat were opposed by the colonists. 

(b) Wlien and where did the first Continental Congress 
meet, and what resolutions did it adopt? 

6. (a) Describe briefly two important battles of the 
Revolution, (b) What two generals, either from jealousy 
or revenge, opposed W'ashington, and how did they bring 
ruin j.nd disgrace upon themselves? 

7. Speak of the Louisiana purcliase: (a) Negotiations 
for its purchase, (b) Extent of territory and price paid. 

(c) States and territories formed from this territory, (d) 
The State first admitted from this territory, and when, (e) 
The State last admitted from this territory, and when ? 

8. (;ive names and dates of the following: (a) Two 
important battles in the war of 1812. (b) One important 
battle in the war with Mexico, (c) Two important battles 
in the Civil war. 

9. (a) Wliat presidents have died in office? W^hen, 
and who succeeded each? (b) In whose administration, 
and at what date were the following measures passed: (1) 
The Omnibus Bill? (2) The first High Protective tariff? 
(3) The Sub-Treasury Bill? (4) The Civil Service Reform 
Bill. 

10. (a) Name three leading statesmen of the present 
Democratic party, and three of the Republican party, (b) 
What two important bills were passed by the last Con- 
gress? (c) What changes have taken place in the cabinet 
of President Cleveland ? 



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ARITHMETIC, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) Resolve 230299 into prime factors. (1)) Write 
four multiples of 21. (c) Given the sum and cUtference of 
two numbers, how find the numbers? (d) Write o38i)0() by 
Roman notation. 

2. 876+94x16- (72x19h-9+9X144h-8- 175)=? 

3. (a) At .$6.45 per C, how many shino-les can be bought 
for $47.73? (b) At .$7.50 per ton, how many bales of hay, 
weighing 50 lbs. each, can be bought for .$90? 

4. A roll of paper 8 yds. long, 18 in. wide, costs $0.85. 
What will it cost to paper the walls and ceiling of a room 
20 ft.Xl6 ft.XlO ft., no allowance being made for openings, 
and tiae cost of labor being $0..37)2 P*^i" square ? 

5. A farmer sells through his agent a consignment of 
cotton at 2io per cent, commission, and increasing the pro- 
ceeds by .$1,508, instructs his agent to invest the amount, 
less the commission, in flour and sell immediately. This 
the agent does, but before the sale could be effected flour 
declines 10 per cent., in consequence of which the farmer 
sustains a loss of $677.90. If the agent's commission for 
buying be 4 i)er cent., and fo)- selling 3 per cent., how many 
bales of cotton, 400 lbs. each, did he sell, cotton being wortli 
5 cents ? 

6. Jones sold a horse to Brown for 233)3 per cent, of his 
cost, or $600 above cost. Brown sold him to Davis at a loss 
of 33^3 percent, (a) What did Junes give for the horse? 
(b) What did Brown get for him ? 

7. Mr. B. of DeFuniak Springs makes a negotiable 
note for $250 in favor of Mr. C, bearing interest from date 
at 8 per cent., payable in 90 days. Date of note September 
10, 1895. C. has the note discounted October 17, at 10 per 
cent, (a) Write the note, (b) Find time it falls due. (c) 
Find time it has to run. (d) Find proceeds. 

8. Wliat is the difference between the true and the />ank 
discount on $250 for 1 year, 4 months and 21 days ? 

9. A cubical block of granite contains 41063625 cubic 
inches, (a) Find radius of inscribed sphere; (b) radius of 
circumscribed sphere. 

10. A cylinder 10 feet long and 5 feet in diameter has 
been cut into the largest possible cone. How much was 
cut, or what part of the cylinder was cut away ? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificite.l 

1. (a) What are the three ways of distinguishing tlie 
masculine and feminine genders? (b) Give examples. 



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2. (live the feminine genders of tlie following: Earl, 
friar, hart, sire, sloven, stag, swain, don, czar and marquis. 

3. Write tiie plurals of the following: Ottoman, alder- 
man, court-martial, mouthful, nebula, focus, hypothesis, 
goodness, trout, elf, it, aid-de-camp, billet-doux, porte- 
monr.aie, staff, Nero, n. Dr., Mr. Jones, and chimney. 

4. Compare the following adjectives: Bad, little, far, 
fore, lazy, ill, good-naturetl, evil, old, and late. 

5. (a ) Chissify verbs with respect to meaning; (b) form, 
(c) Give five examples of each. 

6. Give synopsis of the verb have with s/w in all moods 
in both active and passive voices. 

7. Give a complete classification of the noun and pro- 
noun. 

8. (a) In whiit ways may a noun be in the absolute 
case? (b) Illustrate each. 

9. Diagnan and analyze this sentence: 

The clouds which rise with thunder, slake 

Our thirsty souls with rain; 
The blow most drtiidi'd fails to break 

From off our limbs a chain. — Whittier. 

10. Parse in full: Which, slake, oui', rain, dreaded, 
fails, break, from, limbs, and chain. 

GEOGRAPHY, 

[First. Second or Third Grade Certificate. | 

1. Name and explain all the imaginary lines and cir- 
clfcK used in }nathematical geography. 

2. (:i) Name all the zones a)id give the boundaries of 
each, (b) Give the width of e:ich in common miles. 

3. Show how the ]Miysical features largely determinn 
the industries of any country. 

4. Name the So\ith American States and the cajMlal of 
each- • 

5. Describe Cuba: (a) Its size in square miles, (b) 
Physical features, (c) Products, (d) Races and character 
of people, (e) Present government. 

G. What advantages would accrue to the United States 
from the Panama canal? 

7. Name four prominent river systems of the United 
States. 

8. Tell of the German Empire: (a) Number of States 
comprising it. (b) Name four largest, (c) How is each 
gov( rned. (d) Describe its legislative bodies. 

'J. Draw an outline map of Florida, and locate its river 
systems and ten chief cities. 

10. Draw a township, number its sections, sub-divide 
its 20th section into quarter-quarters, and its SEI4 of the 
NEi'4.into quarter-quarter-quarters and make a cross in th«- 
SEiii of SE^ii of SEI4. 



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COMPOSITION. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) What is the use of the paragraph in composi- 
tion ? (b) Illustrate. 

2. (a) Name the different parts of a letter, (b) How 
should each be punctuated ? 

3. (a) What is meant by outlining a subject? (b) Make an 
outline of the following subject: A Day on the Gulf. 

4. (a) Name five figures of speech, (b) Illustrate each 
with a short sentence. 

5. (a) How would you rank letter writing in import- 
ance among the various forms of composition ? (b) At what 
stage of the pupil's education would you teach letter writ- 
ing? 

6-7. Write a short letter to a County Superintendent 
applying for a school. State your age, experience in teach- 
ing, educational advantages, your late reading on teacliing 
as a science, salary you expect, and name two persons as. 
references as to your character and success as a te;.cher. . 
Be careful about the beginning and closing of your letter. 

8-10. Outline your subject with not less than five heads 
and write an essay of not less than 100 and not over 2(K) 
words on one of the following suljjects: 

(a) Necessity of Summer Schools for Teachers. 

(b) Uniform'Ex;.^minations. 

(c) The Comparative Educational Value of Eng- 

lish Grammer and Arithmetic. 

(d) Duties of a Teacher the First Day of School. 
Note. — Punctuation, capitalization, spelling, para- 
graphing, style and subject matter each to be considered in 
grading the last question. 

PHYSIOLOGY, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Define: (a) Physiology; (b) anatomy: (c) hygiene. 

2. (a) What is a gland ? (b) Describe three of the 
largest in the human body. 

3. What will be the physiological effect of bathing and 
rubbing after violent r^xercise ? 

i. Tell why rapid eating is injurious to health. 

5. Define: (a) Systole; (b) diastole; (c) lymph; (d) lac- 
teals; (e) j)ulse. 

6. Name the organs, and explain respiration. 

7. Name the organs, and explain the whole process of 
digestion. 

S. Explain the office of the eustachian tube. 
9. (a) What do the convolutions of the brain indicate? 
(b) What is the " arbor- v itse " ? 



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10. Explain the effects of alcohol and tobacco: (a) 
Upon the brain; (b) the blood; (c) the nerves; (d) the lieart; 
(ej the stomach. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certiticate.l 

1. Define percept, sense concept, imagination, idea, 
reason. 

2. What is a general concept? How is it formed? 
What is the relation between general concepts and words? 

3. Name five prominent educators, and mention an ed- 
ucational work written by each of tliem. 

4. What is the value of a school program? What are 
the three things of greatest importance to be considered in 
making a school program ? 

5. Give five of the most important qualifications of a 
teacher. 

6. State the substance of some article on an educa- 
tional toi>ic that you have read in a school journal within 
the last three months. What school journals do you take 
and read regularly? Name some of tlie most valuable ped- 
agogical works tiiat you possess. 

7. State the advantages and disadvantages (a) of the 
question and answer method of conducting a recitation; 
(b) of the topic method of conducting a recitation, 

8. What faculties of tlie mind are most active in the 
.six-year-old child? What use should tlie primary teacher 
make of this knowledge? 

S). What is meant by each of the following educational 
maxims: (a) The concrete before the abstract? (b) Jdeas 
before words? (c) From the known to the related un- 
known ? 

10. What special preparations for opening school 
should a teacher make the week before school opens? 

- CIVIL GOVERNMENT, 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Discuss the value of civil government as a public 
school study. 

2. (a) Define government, (b) Show why government 
is necessary, (c) Name and define the principal forms of 
government. 

8. (a) Give a summary of the nature and duties of cit- 
izenship, (b) What are the duties of a government toward 
its citizens ? 

4. (a) Explain the nature of the Constitution, (b) 
Give a brief account of the formation and adoption of the 
Constitution of the United States. 

5. What are the functions of government, and to what 
divisions of power do they give rise? 



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6. (a.) Define impeaclniient. (b) DtBcribe the method 
of coiulucting impeachment proceedings in the case of a, 
President of the United States. 

7. State the qualifications, powers and duties of the 
Governor of Florida. 

8. Name by title the officers -who constitute the Gov- 
ernor's cabinet,' and define the duties of each. 

9. Tell what you can of the origin and growth of the 
public school system in Florida. 

10. (a) Explain how the Coiistitution of Florida may 
be amended, (b) Give the substance of two amendments 
which were adopted in 1S94. 

ALGEBRA. 

[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. What difference between (a) arithmetic and alge- 
bra? (b) theorem and problem? 

2. Define (a) identical equation; (b) quadratic equa- 
tion; (c) root of an equation; (d) logarithm; (e) co- 
efficient. 

.3 T^• -1 2x-fy 2y-x x»+y ' 

3. Divide -^j-^.^—^—^r^y^T—^2 

4. (a) T have two hours to spare; how far may I ride 
on the street car at the rate of 6 miles an houi', if I walk 
back at the rate of 2 miles an hour? (b) Demonstrate 
a°=l. 

5. Explain the three methods of elimination witli the 
following simultaneous equations: 

3x+.3y=18 
3x-2y-l 

6. Find two numbers whose sum multiplied by the 
greater is 120, and whose difterence multiplied bv thr less 
is 16. 

7. A and B together had $9,800. A lost ^ of his and B 
^ of his. Now tliey have equal sums; what have thev 
each ? 

8. Divide 100 into two such parts that the sum of their 
square roots shall be 14. 

9. (a) Find the equation whose two roots are 5 and 2. 
(b) Insert two geometrical means between 24 and 192. 

10. A and JB run a mile. First A gives B a start of 44 
yards, and boats him by 51 seconds; then A gives B ;; start 
of 1 min. 15 sees., and is beaten by 88 yards. In what time 
can eacli run a mile? 



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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

[Kirst Grade (!ertirtcate.l 

1. (a) 111 what respect is the earth like a magnet ? (I)) 
What and where are the magnetic poles? (c) What is 
meant by the '' line of no variation "? 

2. How iiave tiie soils of the earth been formed? 

;>. Name «nd account for five areas of scanty rainfall. 
4. Wh;it are geysers and glaciers? (Jive the theory of 
: hi' l\)rmation of each. 

."). WMiat causes the phosplior'^scence of the sea? 

6. (a) How are the tides caused? {b)I)istinguisii be- 
tween ehb, Jlood, spring x\\\(\ neap tides. 

7. (a) Wll^!t family of plants is the Uirgest contril)utor 
to liuman needs and comforts? Show how. 

H. (a) Wiiat is a valley? (b) a canon ? (c) AN'iii n are 
valleys transverse ? (d) NVlien longitudinal ? 
'.). Define t'losion, fossil, delUi, monsoon. 
10. Explain the monsoons of the Indian Ocean. 



JUNE, 1896. 

ORTHOGRAPHY, 

[First, Second or Tliird Grade Certiflcite.] 

1. Define letter, syllable, alphabet, spelling, ortliogra- 
phy. 

2. Define synonym, homonym, piironym, primitive 
word, derivative word. Give examples illustrating each 
definition. 

3. Use the following prefixes and give meaning of the 
word: ex, re, ob, sub, pro. 

4. Cornet the sptlling of the following words, if in- 
correct: \; lliMnt, insence, surely, dogmattical, ir«ssable, 
exhjiust, loser, hygtne, Conr.eeticnt, predjudice. 

5. SylU:liify, mark accent, and give diacriticjil mark- 
ings of the followir.g worcis: Geiuiine, gratis, inquiry, lapel, 
mirage. 

6. Write the following words in a column and opposite 
each write a synonymous word: Cheerful, clamorous, de- 
fective, edifice, enormous. 

7. Give the rule for spelling the second of each of the 
following pairs of words; Eog, boggy; note, noting; begin, 
beginner; victory, viciorious; daisy, daisies; change, 
<'h;tngeable; shoe, shoeing; hate, hateful; prefer, prefer- 
ence; singe, singeiag. 

8. Write homonyms of the following words: Need, 
leek, step, .seal, seed, pique, ere, meddle, counsel, station- 
ary. 



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9-10. Spell correctly the following: Vishus, dominoze, 
lettis, benefitted, sedislius, gageable, atturny, boka, sheckel, 
bilyus, chizzle, wevll, lackrimal, mortis, korpusel. kristal- 
ize", battalyun, rubarb, sudonini, bizness. 

READING. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Describe in full tlie -word method; the phonic meth- 
od. Name what you consider the qualities of good read- 
ing. 

2. Define pitch, force, movement, emphasis, inflection. 

3. Give general directions for positioii and manage- 
ment of body in reading or speaking. Show how lessons in 
reading may be made to serve as exercises in literature and 
cultivate a literary taste. 

4. What other subjects are tvught iucide.itally in con- 
nection with the teaching of reading? 

5. Give three general directions for reading poetry. 
and state some errors to be avoided. 

6-8. Read a paragraph of prose. 
8-10. Read an extract of poetry. 

[The examiner will gi'ade on the examinee's paper 
the last two questions for the use of the Grading (Commit- 
tee in grading this subject.] 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

[Second or Tiiird Grade Certificate.! 

1. Why was this continent named America ? 

2. Sketch briefly the settlement of Virginia. 

3. Relate the incident connected with ''The Charter 
Oak." 

4. What is meant by the "• Monroe doctrine " ? What 
recent occurrences make this in our foreign relations a mat- 
ter of great importance ? 

5. What events do these dates suggest: 1492, 1607, 1620, 
1754, 1775, 1787, 1812, 1845, 1861, 1863? 

6. Locate and state for what noted in our histoi'y: Sar- 
atoga, Yorktown, Gettysburg, Richmond, Chicngo. 

7. Name Ave great inventions and associate with each 
invention named tlie name of rhe inventor. 

8. Name the last five Presidents, and sDmething of im- 
portance that occurred during the administration of e:jch. 

9. Relate some important historical facts connected 
with each of the following: Thomas .Jefferson. Alexander 
Hamilton, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson, Grovor Cleve- 
land. 

10. What was the expressed position of the RepuL'lican 
party respecting slavery when Abraham Lincoln was first 
elected ? 



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UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

I First Grade (..'ertiticate.] 

1. Define history. State yoifr method of teaching 
United States history, 

2. Tell when and where tlie first permanent English 
settlements were made in the Ignited States. 

8. Name and give causes of two wars in which the 
United States have been engaged since 1800. 

4. What have been the important additions to the ter- 
ritory of the United States since ITSiJ? 

5. What is meant by the Civil Service of the United 
States? What evils was tlie Civil Service bill designed to 
corr.-ct ? 

6. I)escril)e the battle of Gettyslmrg, naming the 
prominent commanders in eacli army. 

7. What was the necessity of an Electoral Comniis- 
sion? What do you thinli t)f the justice of its acts? 

8. Trace briefly the financial history of this countrv. 
Wiiat of the ''wild cat" banks? Panics of 1887 and 1873? 
Wluit seems to bi; tlie present fi'i-rncial policy? 

9. What of the growtli in art, sdcncc, literature, and ed- 
ucation in the past half century? 

11). F]xphiin whr.t is meant by the following: " Pro- 
tective tarifiV' "tariff for reveraie," "free silver," "the 
initiative and referendum," in political aifairs. 

ARITHMETIC 

rWecond or Third Grade CertiHcite. 1 

1. Express by Arabic notation twenty billion, nineteen 
thousand, nineteen (one num))er); l)y Konuui notation six 
liundred five tlionsand (one number); express in figures 
MDIi; in words 625.625. 

2. Divide the least common multiple of 7, 42, 6, 9, 10, 
630, by the greatest common (iivisor of 110, 140, 680. 

3. A In.d his money in ti^-ee pockets; in the first \, in 
the second \, in the third $85 more than I of the whole. He 
invested %lv\ in a horse, .$(i5,'; m ;; cow, $183 in a buggy, the 
remainder in sheep at $2:,'^ a head. How many slieep did 
lie buy? [Note. — Don't convert into decimals.] 

4. Add il, expressed decimally to 600 and twenty-five 
ten-thousandths; diminish the sum by syejVo'o expressed 
decimally; n^ultiply th^ remainder by six and 34 thou- 
saaidths; divide tlie product by six thousand thirty-four 
ten-thousandths, and what is the result? 

5. Divide 375 by .75; .75 by 375; find the product of 
their quotients and express tne answer in words. 

6. Find the interest on $1,297.60 for 2 years, 11 months, 
18 days at 7 per cent. 



86 Florida Unifonit Exaiiii)iallon Questions, June, iSg6. 

7. Received $33.25 interest on a sum of money loaned 
5 years previous at 7 per cent. What was the sum lent ? 

8. A owes B $321, payable in one year. What is the 
present worth of the deUt, money being worth 7 per cent.? 

9. What sum of money will produce .$300 in 8 months, 
if $800 produce $70 in 1.5 months? Solve according to the 
rule for compound proportion. 

10. A commission merchant sold a consignment of flour 
at %% commission and invested the net proceeds in bacon at 
5% commission. What did he receive for the flour and pay 
for the bacon, if his total commission amounted to $1.50? 

ARITHMETIC, 

[First Grade Certiticate.] 

1. What number fallen from 2'r. times 12i will leave 
20% ? Find the cost of 20^3 cords of wood, if '6K cords cost 

$11.37>o. 

2. What is the difference between the area, of a floor 2-5 
feet square and that of two others each 12 feet 6 inches 
square ? 

3. When it is 12 o'clock (noon) at Portland, Oregon, 
what time of day is it at Omalia, 9{t degrees W., sui)posiiig 
that the longitude of Portland is 124 degrees W. ? 

4. A fence five boards high is built around a square 
field containing 10 acres. The top l)oard is 4 inciies wide, 
the base board is 10 Indies wide, the middle i;oj.rtls each B 
inches wide; what is the cost of the lumber i\< $12.50 per M? 

5. What per cent, is made by a druggist who buys 
medicine at $5 a pound, avoirdupois weight, and sells it at 
48 cents an ounce, apothecaries' weight? 

6. Find the difference between the true and the bank 
discount on a non-interest bearing note for $(3,285 for 9 
months and 15 days, money being worth 6 per cent. 

7. If six men dig a cellar 22.5 feet long, 17.8 feet wide, 
and 10 feet 3 inches deep, in ;> d iys of 10 hours and 15 min- 
utes each, how many men will it require to dig another in 
12 days of 8.2 hours each, 45 feet long, 343 feet wide, r.nd 
12.3 feet deep ? 

8. (a) Find the square root of 16,49;),844. 
(bl Find rhe cube root of 7,301,384. 

9. How much will it cost to plaster a room 16 feet 9 
inches long, 14 feet 8 inciies wide, 10 feet G i.iehes iiigh, if 
there are tliree windows 6 feet by 2 feet 9 inches, two doors 
7 feet by 3 feet, and a base board one foot wide; the price 
of j)lastering being 25 cents per square yard ? 

10. What will be the cost in T. S. money of a cylinder 
of oil whose diameter is 3 feet and whose length is 4 feet, 
if oil is worth a franc per gallon? 



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ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate 

1. Nnnie eight parts of speech. Which [);!rt.'^ of speech 
have inflection ? 

2. Decline: Which, tlion, man-servant. 

8. Coniprre: tiood. j)olite, ill, nuich, liMidsonit'. 

4. (Jive tlie prii.clpj'.l p? rts of : I^ie, lay, set, sit, sing, 
rise, know, hear (Oring lortii), I'aise, fly, 

0. ^A hen are verl s said to be regular? fJive the prin- 
cipr.l parts of four irrtgnha- verl)s, in the use of whicli 
wrong forms frecjuently occnr, 

B. Define declension, conjugation, comjnirison, voice 
■AwCi case f,s use<l in grammar. 

7. Dia^^ram or analyze: 

" JJe T,// ■ filches from me my good name, 
hobs me of ihot uihiilt not enriches liim. 
And iiiakt-s inc poor indeed.'''' 

H. Pars" in full tlie ei^^ljl words italicized jn the above 
sentence. 

9- Write the synopsis of the verb r-^?/ with thou in both 
the indicative and sul>junclive moods, passive voice. 

10. Define syntax. Chajige tlie following sentences to 
correct syntax, and p-ive reason in ea(M) instance for your 
correction: 

(a) They are l)oth alike. 

(b}If I ;;m not inistaken the numljer is 2(i. 

(c) The committee was divided jn its opinions. 

(d) I wished really to know, 

(e) Kither you or i are in error, 

(f) Wjiich of tlie group of men is the taller? 

(g) Have you Webster and Worcester's dictionarv. 
(h) There goes Mr, and Mrs. Smith, 

(i) It could not nave been her, 
(j) I fed brdly. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR- 

/First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Write the possessive case, both singular and plural, 
of the following-: Fly, child, l)rother, sheep, mother-in-law, 
mouse, ox-cc.i't, money, portico, chimney. 

2. Compare and give reason for so comparing each: 
Thin, clever, wooden, merry, nigh, ajtiple, grey, universal, 
shy, beautiful, 

o. State the tlifi'erence between yi'ltal and the other rel- 
atives. When are that and as relatives ? 

4- Writ* sentences in which 7i>hat is used as a noun, 
in-onoun, adjective, adverb and interjection. 

5. Write the synopsis of the verb leal with he in alj 
iDiodes and tenses and in both voice.*:. 



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6. Analyze: I seem to have been only like a l>oy playing 
on the seashore, and diverting >nysc-lf\\\ noio and then /«^//;/^'- 
a smoother pebble or &. prettier shell than ordin«i-y, tc/z/Ay the 
great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. 

7. Parse in full the ten words in italics in the above 
sentence. 

8. Which do you consider more important, analysis or 
parsing? For wliat reason ? 

9. Distinguish between the analysis and diagram of a 
sentence. 

10. Diagram: A School Board which assigns any 
teacher to a school, when there is among its applicants an- 
other teacher unemployed and better qualified for the posi- 
tion, sins against God,\he State, and every child and patron 
in that school district. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certiticate. ] 

1. Define longitude; latitude; meridian; parallel; 
ecliptic. 

2. Locate and define each of the following: Amazon; 
Vesuvius; Cuba; Nile; Liverpool; Gibraltar; Sr.hara; 
Honolulu; Yukon; Venice. 

3. State the name of tlie line which marks tiie highest 
northern limit on which the rays of the sun are ever ver- 
tical, and give the date on which the sun reaches this 
limit. 

4. Describe the drainage of Florida. Name the five 
largest cities in the State, and locate each. Estimate the 
area and population of Florida. 

5. To what country does Cuba belong? "What is the 
cause of the ijolitical trouble now brewing there ? 

6. How do you account for the climate along the coast 
of Alaska ? Labrador ? 

7. Name five of the largest cities of the world and lo- 
cate each. Name five largest cities, five longt st rivers in 
the United States, and loc;.te the cities. Give the sources 
of, and the direction and into what waters the rivtrs flow. 

8. Of what foreign countries are the following the 
principal export products: Tea, sugar, coffee, cotton, o[)ium, 
cinchona, wool, watches, jr.te, tin? 

9. Write three cohnnns: In the first, the names of the 
countries of Eui'ope; in tlie second, the names ol their cap- 
itals; in the third, their form of government. 

10. Draw a diagram of a township, sub-divide the six- 
teenth section into quar-quarters, and locate thus (x) a 
school house in the sw^u of ne\. 



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COMPOSITION, 

[Kirst, Second or Third Grade Certiticate. ] 

1. What is composition? 

2. WliJit is style? Givf foui' requisites of style. 

'i^. Wluit is reduiulancy ? What is tautology? Re- 
move the rpcluiukmcy in the following sentence: ''Every 
mail on tiie face of the earth has dutif^s to perform." Re- 
move the tautology in: '•The effects and consequences of 
such corruption and degenenicv are deplorable ami lament' 
al)le." 

4. (tive six rules for the use of the comma. 

0. >,'ame and make all the other marks of punctuation. 
Sta.te hrielly tlie use of each. 

6-7. Write a letter to your County Superintendent, 
using not les.< than lOt) words, giving tiie following facts: 

Where you were educated, where you last taught, the 
nanic of the su])ervisor, the grade of certificate then iield, 
where it was obtained, the grade you are now aiming to 
s: cure, the salary you expect; give two references as to 
your past success as a teaclier; or student, if you have 
never taught. 

8-10. First give outline of your subject and write a 
composition one page in length on one of the following 
subjects: 

My Favorite Rooks. 
Industrial Education. 
Reiiefits Arising From Summer Schools. 
The Teacher's Opportunities. 
NoTK. — In grading the last two consider: 

(1) The thought expressed. 

(2) The correctness and propriety of language 

used. 

(3) The orthography, punctuation, paragraphing, 

use of capitals, and general appearance. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

[First Second or Third Grade Certiticate. J 

1. Define physiology, anatomy, hygiene. 

2. Give three principal uses the bones sen-e. Give^ 
three principal uses the muscles serve. 

8. C'.assify the bones of the arm, and name the bones 
in each class as usually given in the text-books. 

4. Explain the st^i^s of digestion, beginning with mas- 
tication. 

5. Describe the heart, and the principal circulatory 
organs. 

(5. Name the principal organs and describe the process 
<;f respiration. 



40 Florida Unifonit Kxaiitination Qiustions, June, 1806. 

7. Niiine the grand divisions of the l)rain, and the func- 
tion of each division. 

8. Tell how to properly care for the eyes, with refer- 
ence to character of liglit;'direction from whicli it should 
come; size of print; when. to rest them. 

9. Describe the nervous system. Into what classes are 
the nerves classified? What are motory nerves? 

10. Give six specific cautions you would teach your 
pupils to observe in regard to eating and drinking. Enu- 
merate some of the harmful effects of narcotics and alco- 
holic liquors on tlie human system. Whr^t importance do 
you attach to (he formal study of physiology and hygiene 
in the common schools? What is the proi)er temperature 
to maintain in a schoolroom ? What is the teacher's duty 
in regard to ventilation and cleanliness in the schoolroom? 

THEORY AND PRACTICE, 

(I^'roni Page edited by Payne.) 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Give a brief sketch of the life of David Perkins 
Page. 

2. Name three conceptions of fitness for teaching in 
the order of their historic-il sequence. Wliat is the real 
basis of fitness for teaching, so far as it can be obtained 
from study? (ChaxJ. I.) 

8. Scholarship asid<>, what is the first thing to I)t- 
sought by a candidate lor the ollice of teacher ? (Chap. II.) 

4. Kt.me four inferences in regi.rd to education drawn 
from the illustration of the '•'• neglected perr tree." Name 
four things for whicii the teacher is mainly or lc.rg\-ly re- 
sponsible in the education of the young; state the ordei in 
which the elementary studies should be taken up. The 
schoolroom is noplace for what kind of teacher? 

(Chap. III.) 

5. Name five personal habits indispensable to a teacli- 
er\s success. (Chap. IV.) 

6. Name in order, if yon can, the twenty-two studies 
which a '' good teacher, even of a common scljool, should 
make himself acquainted witli." AVhrtdid M.-rtin Luther 
say of tlie scliuol-mastev that cannot sing? (Chap. V.) 

7. What is education in the absolute sense? Why do. 
even good scliolars fail as educators? (Chap, VI.) 

H. Name two erroneous processes of teaching, into one 
of wliich many teachers fall. V^fhat more excellent way is 
illustrated by an ear of corn, and whom does the last pro- 
cess awake? (Chap. VII.) 

9. State briefly nine suggestions which will enable 
teachers to excite interest in conducting recitations. 

(Chap. VIII.) 



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10. Give in brief seven ohjeetioiis to offering: prizes as 
incentives to stndy. Name five proper incentives that may 
he safelv emploved to excite interest in studv. 

' (Chap. IX.) 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT, 

— [First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Who are citizens of the I'nited States? How may 
others become citizens ? 

2. How are the followinj? United States officers chosen 
and for wliat lenf^tii of time: President, Senator, Repre- 
sentative, Secretary of State. .Jntljjfe of tiie Snpreme Court? 

8. Wiiat is the Constitution of the United States? 
How made? How adopted? How anjended ? 

4. Name the tiiree (iepartnu-nts of {government. De- 
scribe the law-makin<:^ department and the stages tiirouj^h 
which a United States statute must pass before it becomes 
a law. 

5. What Constitutional qualifications are necessary to 
become a President? V. S. Senator? Representative? 
Why proliibit a forei<^n born citizen from beitig President? 

i). Wiiat is meant l)y tiie Australian Jiallot? Give the 
main features of tlie system. 

7. Wliat is (reason? How generally punished ? What 
is a " filibuster"? 

S. How are territories govei'ned? How do they be- 
come States? Name tlie principal changes they undergo 
in l)econung States. 

y. State tliree principal duties of each of the follow- 
ing: Governor, State Superinteiident of I'ublic Instruction,* 
County Siiperintendent of Public Instruction, County 
Board of Public Instruction, School Trustee, Supervisor, 
Public Scliool Teaciier. 

10. Wlio constitute the State Board of Education? 
Wliat creates tlie permanent school fund? What school 
funds are apportioned by the Slate, and upon what basis? 
From what sources are county scliool funds obtained? On 
what basis and l)y whom apportioned? 

ALGEBRA. 

fFirst Grade Certificate.] 
. 1. Define algebra, quantity, root, a radical, equation. 
2. Find the greatest common divisor, a*— b^, and a« 
-b«. 

8. Find the least common multiple of a*— b', a^' — b* 
and a-— 2ab-|-b''. 

4. There is a number such that the sum of its \ and i 
exceeds the sum of its \ and \ ; required the number. 

5. Write the development of the binomial (l-x)«. 

6 



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6. A number is expressed by 3 digits. The sum of tlie 
digits is 9. The number is equal to 42 times the sum of the 
first and second, and the third digit is twice the sum of the 
other two. Find the number. 



7. Square. — + —; Expand (a+v' ^^ -x^)-'. 

8. What two "numbers are to eacli other as 4 to 5, and 
the difference of whose numbers is 81 ? 

9. A farmer bought a number of sheep for $y<); if he 
had bought 4 more for the same money, he would have 
paid %\ less for eadi ; how many d id he buy ? 

10. Solve 2i/x-|-v4x+v 7x-f 2 = 1. ' 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 
[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Define physical geography. What is meant by the 
'' laws of nature "? 

2. How have the soils of the eartli been formed ? 

3. Explain the trade winds. Tell how glaciers are 
formed and where found. 

4. Name all the causes that affect tiie heat and cold of 
a place. 

5. Name some of tlie great rainless regi'Mis of the 
earth, and tell why tliey are rainless. 

6. What are tides? What causes the difference in 
their heiglits ? 

7. Explain the mutual dependence of plants and ani- 
mals. 

8. What is an equinox? How many are there? When 
•do they occur and why ? 

9. If you were at the equator June 4tii, wjjich direc- 
tion would your shadow fall? Give the reason for your 
answer. 

10. Why should more rain fall on a mountain than on 
the low lands at its base ? What effect does cutting away 
the timber have upon the climate of a country ? 



SEPTEiVlBER, 1896. 

ORTHOGRAPHY, 

fFii-st, Second or Tliird Grade (".ertiticate.] 

1. Illustrate with words all the diacritical marks of the 
vowels a and o. 

2. Write the suffix with its meaning in each oi the fol- 
lowing words: Divisible, doubtful, waspish, shorten, glob- 
ule. 



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8, Give five nouns, underscoring the suffix in each, the 
suffixes meaning respectively: Act of, to make, one who, 
pertaining to, state of ])eing. 

4. Use a prefix with each of the following words, and 
show liow the meaning is changed: Print, fair, modest, 
sight, rate. 

5. What are the words called that sound alike, hut are 
spelled differently? That mean nearly tlie same tiling? 

6. Spell and define tlie following words with two others 
liaving tlie same sound as eacli : Write, road, raise, see!>, 
sight. 

7. Add tlie suffixes en, ness, ist. able, ence to the fol- 
lowing words in order, and giv<M'ule for spelling eacli de- 
rivative «(}lad, dainty, ct>py, service, defer. 

H. (live diacritical marks for two sounds of c; two 
sounds of g. Illuslrate eacii. 

9-10. Spell correctly : lieafstake, ockurence, senteneal, 
iilleys, hiilyards, inflaimasliun, exadgerate, tiranicle, sir- 
single, vaxinate. 

READING, 

f First. Second or Third Grade (JeriiHcate.l 

1. (a) What is reading? (li) Define articulation, (e) 
(live an error in articulation. 

2. (a) What is einpl.asis? (b) Mention three ways of 
using it. 

8. (a) Is there a difference in (juantity of tone and 
pitch of voice in reading? (h) Explain your answer. 

4. Wliat drills do you give pupils as to: (a) Position 
ofl)ody? (b) Holding of book? (c) Breathing? (d) (iles- 
ture? (e) Facial expression? 

5. How would you conduct a reading lesson in a large 
class, looking to: (a) Correcting errors? (b) Naturalness ? 
(c) Mastery ? 

6-10. Head an extract of ten lines each of prose and 
poetry for your examiner. 

(Examiner will grade from to 25 eacli extract read 
and deliver same to the (irading Committee to be added by 
them to the grading of the questions above.) 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

[Second or Tliird Grade ("ertiticate.] 

1. Name three of the chief advantages to be derived 
from tile study of history. 

2. Into what periods would you divide United States 
history? 

8. Name the wars engaged in by the United States, 
tlie cause or causes of each, with the results. 



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4. Of the f?reat orators, which have been Presidents? 
Which of the great generals have been Presidents? 

5. Wliicii of our Presidents spi'ang from obscure origin? 
Give a brief sketch of the early life of each. 

6. Make a list of the Presidents of the United States, 
affixing to each name the time he served and tlie political 
imrty to which he belonged? (in columns.) 

7. How many electoral votes will the State of Florida 
have this year? 

8. Who was the first Governor of Florida elected by 
the i^eople ? What man prominent in Florida history after- 
wards became President of the United States? 

9. Name five important acquisitions of territory. Who 
was President when eacli was acquired? Tell wl^at led to 
the acquisition in each case. 

10. What is the paramount question at issue in the 
present national campaign ? What does each party claim 
will be the result if tlie other triumplis? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Why is history valuable as a study? Why is the 
history of the United States important to us ? 

2.' Give a sketch of the territorial development of the 
United States. 

3.' Name the leading questions at issue at the follow- 
ing dates: 1812, 1882, 1844, 1850, 18B0. 

4. What did eacli of tlie following write: Irving, Bry- 
ant, Longfellow, Wiiittier, Holmes, Poe, Emerson, Lowell, 
Cooper, Hawthorne ? 

5. Name three Presidents whose elections were at- 
tended with unusual circumstances, and explain those cir- 
cumstances. 

6. Who was the author of '' Millions for defense, but 
not' a cent for tribute "? 

7. What States, besides the original thirteen, became 
States without liaving been organized as territories ? 

8. How did the United States get Florida? Who was 
the first Governor after it became a State ? 

9. Couple the names of the inventors with what you 
consider the five greatest American inventions. 

10. What are the principal questions ai i.ssue in the ap- 
proaching national election ? State the position of the 
three leading parties. 



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ARITHMETIC 

rSecond or Third Grade Certittcite. I 

1. Divide one hundred and one tenth by thirteen thou- 
sandths. 

2. A owned ;: of a factory and sold \ of his share to 
V>, who sold i of what he l)()U<i:ht to (', who sold 3 of what 
he bought to I). What i)art of the whole factory did each 
of them still own after the last sale? 

3. A and Ji hire a pasture for %\hM). A puts in ^t cows 
and B i)Uts in 12 cows. How much must eacii pay? 

4. KpcIuc*' ..H^") of a year to months and days. 

5. Tlie longitude of Tampa is S2° "IW W. The lt)ngitude 
of San Francisco is 122° ;>((' W. When it is 1 p. m. in Tam- 
pa, what time is it in San Fianciseo? 

6. Sold two houses at ^2,4S4 each ; on one I gained S'^, 
and on the other I lost S",,. What per cent, ditl I gain or 
lose on the transaction? 

7. What % of j; is 2? 

y. How must goods costing lij cents a yard be marked 
to yield a gain of H;5;', per cent.? 

J). What will be the proceeds of a (>(» day note for .$1,- 
2tM), if discounted at a bank at S"„ IS ilays aft«A- it is tirawn? 

10. Sold a farnj for .tl,^)*) on a commission of .">"„; in- 
vested tlie net proceeds in oranges, reserving a commission 
of 3%. How many boxes of oranges did I buy, and how 
much change had I over? 

ARITHMETIC, 

[f'Mrst Grade Certificate.] 

1. Divide $7^ among 5 boys and 3 girls, giving each boy 
I as much as each girl. How much will eacJi get? 

2. What time is it when 5 of the time past noon equals 
\ of tile time before midniglii ? 

3. What per ceiif. did a huckster make on his invest- 
ment, who bouglitflve bushels of chestnuts at .$3 a bushel, 
dry measure, and retailed them at 10 cents a quart, liquid 
measure? 

4. What will be the proceeds of a 90-day note, face 
$S()0, dated August 15, 189(5, and bearing interest at 8 per 
cent., if discounted Sept. 8, 1896, at 10 per cent.? Bank dis- 
count, 360 days counted a yiiar. 

5. How far is ir in a straight line from the northwest 
corner of Sec. 6, Townsliip 2 N. of Bange 3 Mest, to the 
southeast corner of Sec. 35, T. 3 S., B. 3 K., neglecting all 
corrections for curvature of earth's surface? Draw a dia- 
g:ram. 

6. What will be my gain on 35 shares of stock bought 
at 82^, brokerage i%, and sold at 109J, brokerage |% ? 



46 Florida Unifovm Examination Questions, September, i8g6. 

7. Kohn, Fuichgott & Co. liave an account with Field 
& Leiter which stands as follows: 

DKBTT ITKMS CREDIT ITEMS. 

April lU, 1896, Mdse. $150 00 I April 12. 1896, By cash $250 (H) 

'' 80, "• " . . 4(K) Ot) I 

Mav 16, ^^ '' .. UK) 00 May 1, '' '' .200 0(» 

June 24, ^' " .. 500 00 [ June 7, '' " . 400 IM 

When should a note in settlement of the above account 
have been given? And what is now due (Sept. 8) on the 
acct., counting interest at 8%, 860 days to the year? 

8. How many square feet of galvanized sheet-iron will 
he required to make a cubical tank, without cover, which 
will contain 1000 gallons of water ? 

9. How many lead balls, 3 inches in diameter, will 
weigh as much as'one iron liall 12 inches in diameter? Sp. 
(t. of lead being 11, iron 7. 

10. What will be the weight of an iron column in the 
shape of a hollow cylinder wliose walls are 2 inches thick, 
outer circumference* 25.1828 inches, and length of pillar 12 
feet? (A cubic foot of water weighs 624 lbs. Sp. (t. of 
iron 7.) 

ENGUSH GRAMMAF. 

(Second or Third Grade Certificate. 

i. Write the possessive case, plural number, of: Jt. 
which, cupful, son-in-law, Knight-Templar. 

2. Which parts of speech are declined? W^hich iw^ 
compared? Which are conjugated? Decline son-in-law, 
who, it. 

8. C'ompare: Fit, much, fore, up, nigh. 

4. Decline in full the 8rd personal pronouns. 

5. Write the synopsis with //<? of the verb <<?/<// in the 
progressive form in the active and passive voices. 

6. Parse in full each word in, " Whence all but liim 
had fled." 

7. Correct, give rule for corrections and diagram: "Tht- 
chiumeys were built from brick.'' 

8. Write a simple sentence with the subject, predicatt- 
and object each modified. 

9. Diagram or analyze this sentence, and parse in full 
italicized words: 

The clouds 'u</iii.h rise with thunder, s/ake 

Our thirsty souls with rain ; 
The blow most dreadc'd fi\.\\ii to tn-eak 

trom off our limbs a chuin. — W hit tier ^ 

10. Write sentences of the following kinds: 

(a) A compound declarative sentence, each of its. 
parts being complex; one containing a rela- 
tive clause, the other containing an adverb- 
ial clause denoting time. 



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(I)) A complex iiiterrojjfativp .seiitencf contaiiiii.u: 
ail adverbial clause (leiiotinj^ place. 

(c) A simple declarative sentence with the verl) 

in the potential present, 

(d) A compound imperative sentence. 

(e) A simj)le sentence containing- two sii)j;iilar 

sul)jects connected \>y or. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[l'ii>t Grade Certificate ) 

1. Write the possessive singular anil i>iiiral of : Man, 
hi(»tlier-in-law, country, he, enemy, 

2. When more than one, give different plurals and ex- 
jilain the formation of the plural of the following: .Statf, 
Miss Smith, Mrs, Jone.s, I)r, Coe and Jiee, fish, hose, 
inatheii, four pair, by score, politics, 

8. Compare: (iood, 2'olite, ill, jnuch. handsome, and 
give reason tor eacii comparison. 

4. Write the synojjsis with thou uf the verb Kttih in 
both tlie active and passive voices, indicative and sub- 
junctive modes- 

5. Correct, give law and diagram: " P>very one of th<- 
pt-r.scMis whj) have news in their cl)n)rJi haveconcurred in 
tlie same .sentiment." 

6. Write a com2>Iex sentence, comjilex in ,sul)je('t. i^retl- 
icate and ol)je('t. 

7. Th'-re has always be^n a question whether men who 
are reared within the friction of great cities have the better 
^opportunities for development, or whether tliey may l)t- 
eome stronger or more robust from constant cojnmiinioii 
with the sublimity of nature, where the great pealcs lift 
liieir faces to the skies and the streams niake music as tlj/^y 
/low toward the sea, — CJnnJa E. Filch. 

(a) Select from the above exerci«e antl wj-ite in a 
colujmi Hi.^ following; An adjective phrase; 
an adverbial phrase; an adverb that modi- 
fies another adverb; a predicate noun; two 
adjectives in i\\e cojnparative degjee, one 
compared by means of a suffix, the other by 
aneans of an adverb; a relative noun; an in- 
transitive verb; a. verb in the potential 
mode; two correlative (corre«pondinj», alter- 
jiate.) conjuuftions. 
K In the exercise alwve, give two words that connect 
\dauses; give the first i^roposition; name a noun never used 
in the plural; give the subject of the sentence; parse /^w, 
y. Diagram the following: 

I like the lad who, when his father thought 
To clip his morning nap by hackneyed praise 
Of vagrant worm by early songstei'caugJit, 



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Cried, ''Served him right! 'tis not at all surpris- 
ing; 
The worm was punished, sir, for early rising." 

— Saxe. 

10. Parso in full from the above: Lad, who, when, 
clip, caught, cried, served, right, sir, Saxe. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Name ten great nations of the earth and the capital 
of each. 

2. What are the tropics? Why so placed? What is 
longitude? What is the greatest longitude a place can 
have? What is tlie greatest latitude a place can have? 

3. Describe the island of Cuba, giving its size, popula- 
tion and products, and the trouble tl)at exists there now. 

4. Wliat and where are the following: Pyrenees? 
Blanc? Danube? Gibraltar? Selvas? Sardinia? Pekin? 
Tanganyika? Olympia ? Orinoco? 

5. Name ten States of the United States and the capi- 
tal of each. 

6. Name five rivers in the United States that empty 
into the Atlantic Ocejin, and five States that touch the 
(iulf of Mexico. 

7. Wliat would you teach about France? 

8. Name a State in the ITnited States prominent in the 
production of gold; of cotton; of wheat; of tobacco; of 
manufactured articles. 

9. Describe Florida. Give its iiistory, surface, prod- 
ucts, rivers, cities, population, and area. 

10. Name the principal exports and imports of the 
United States. Name five prominent nations with which 
the United States has commercial relations. 

COMPOSITION. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Name five essential points to be considered in grad- 
ing a composition. 

2. Give five important rules for the use of capital let- 
ters. 

3. Write five rules for the use of the comma. 

4. Name five figures of speech and illustrate each .with 
a sentence. 

5. Give reasons why it is best to outline a subject be- 
fore writing upon it. Name the essential properties of 
good style. 

G-10. Write an essay of not less than 300 words on one 
of the following subjects: 



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(a) Ingratitude. 

(b) The greatest needs of the Florida public 

school system. 

(c) The value of studying methods of teaching. 

(d) The duties of the teacher to the community. 

(e) Are teachers' training schools desirable? 
NoTK. — In grading the composition, o])serve the spell- 
ing, punctuation, capitalization, gramnmtical construction, 
value of the thought expressed and the general appearance. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

[First Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. What are the offices of the skeleton? Name and 
locate the bones of the upper body. 

2. What are muscles ? Explain the muscular system, 
naming the !avg«ist and most important muscles. 

8. Name all the organs of respiration. Explain the 
(•«)nsequences of re-breathing the air in a room. 

4. I^xplain the function of each of the excretory or- 
gans. 

5. Name the orgai'.s and explain the process of diges- 
tion. 

6. What is the effect upon digerstion of drinking great 
draughts of ice water? 

7. What effect has alcohol upon digestion? What 
upon the heart? Upon the brain and the nervous system? 

8. For warm climates which is the better food, meats 
or vegetables ? Explain your answer. 

9. Should one work or study just after eating? AVhy 
should one not eat rapidly, or when mad or worried? 

10. Explain the effects of chewing tobacco and smok- 
ing. Wliich is more injurious and why? 

THEORY AND PRACTICE, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Name three requisites in the teacher for good gov- 
ernment. How would you secure good government in your 
.school ? 

2. In what manner and to what extent should a teacher 
make himself a useful citizen in the community where he 
labors? 

3. Write a program for a day's exercises in the com- 
mon school. 

4. AVhat is the last resort of a teacher in securing good 
order and establishing government ? What is punishment? 
What is the object of punishment? Name three proper 
punishments. Name some imj^roper punishments. 



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5. What is the object of the lesson ? By what should 
the teacher be governed in assigning a lesson ? 

6. Of what value are reviews ? What methods are 
there of conducting reviews? 

7. Explain the relation that should exist between the 
teacher and the parents of his pupils. 

8. How may a teacher improve himself in his profes- 
sion ? 

9. What special prepai-ation should a teacher make for 
liis first day of school? How would you occupy tlie first 
hour of the first day of school? 

10. Give a concise definition of teaching. Name some 
of the qualities that should be possessed by a good teacher, 
scholarship aside. Salary aside, name some of the rewards 
of a faithful teacher. 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. What is government? Into what departments is 
tlie government of the United States divided ? 

2. How are members of the House of Representatives 
chosen? How long do they serve? How are Senators 
cliosen? How long do they serve? What, is the presiding 
officer in each brancli of Congress styled, and liow is In- 
elected ? 

3. What is the ratio of representation in the House of 
Representatives? Where do all bills for raising the reve- 
nue originate? 

4. Name three powers given to, and three prohi))itioiis 
I) laced upon, Congress. 

5. Explain in full the manner of election of a Presi- 
dent of the United States. 

6. What is impeachment ? Which branch of Congress 
has the sole power of impeachment ? Which branch tries 
impeabhments? What is tlie limit of punishment in cases 
<kf impeachment? Who presides over the Senate in case a 
Senator is being tried on impeachment ? 

7. In what ways may a bill become a law under the 
C'onstitution of the United States ? 

8. By the Constitution of Florida, in wliat is the legis- 
lative function of the State vested ? Tlie Elxeeutive ? Does 
the Governor of Florida have the veto power? Is he eligi- 
ble for re-election? If so, explain under what circum- 
stances. 

9. What officers compose the State Board of Educa- 
tion in Florida ? 

10. Under the Teachers' Uniform Examination Law, 
what certificates are granted ?- What grades are recjuiied. 
and for what time are the ditferent certificates granted ? 



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ALGEBRA. 
[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Define tlie following-: Algebfa symbol, equation, 
identical equation, ex|)onent, foellicient, simple equation, 
(luadratic equation, binomial, surd. 

2. Factor U-lx-y^— 22r)Z«. 

H. Find the highest common factor of x^— 8, and x" — 
(ix-'+llx-G. 

4. Resolve a" — b« into all of its prime factors. 

- ,r -I ^x+y , 2y-x , x^+y* 

0. Divide ^^+-3rz:^, by ^7^:^, 

(i. Solve by t hree imt hods : j "^^T^^'^ll^j j 

7. A can do a piece of work in 8 days and B in 12 days; 
they work together for 4 days when B quits; how long did 
it take A to finish the job? ' 

8. Divide 4v 50" by 2v 57 

y. Find the ecjuation whose two roots are 5 and 2. in- 
sert two geoir.etrical means between 24 and 192. 
x+1 a+l 

10. Solve -4:=r=—!:^ 

1 X I a 

1. Wiiere do tourists go to see the " midnight sun " ? 
At what season and in what direction is it seen? 

2. Would ;i clock whose pendulum was of the right 
lengtli to keep correct time in Jacksonville need to be regu- 
lated differently for I'pernavik ? (Jive reasons for answer. 

3. How would the climate, drainage, etc., of South 
America differ from present conditions, if the earth's rota- 
tion were the reverse of what it is now? 

4. Explain the monsoons. 

5. Name and account for five areas of scanty rainfall. 

6. What is the general cause of earthquakes? 

7. Name and locate the principal types of mankind. 

8. Would a canal through the Isthinus of Panama af- 
fect the CJulf Stream? Give reasons for answer. 

9. Account for deltas. 

1(1. Can man do anything to check tiie excessive rise 
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JUNE, 1897. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

FFirst. Second or Third Grade Certiflcate.l 

1. Define: Root, pi'imitive, derivative, homonym, 
synonym. 

2. Syllabicate, mark diacritically the vowels and the 
accented syllable of the following: Abdomen, condolence, 
rapine, lowering, apparatus, hymenean, acclimate, in- 
ventory, finance, dictionary. 

3. Give the rule in each case and spell the deriva- 
tive formed by uniting in order the following ten words 
and affixes: Admit and ance; prefer and ence; model and 
iug; hate and ing; desire and able; outrage and ous; value 
and able; glory and ous; plenty and ou«; bounty and ful. 

4. Form a derivative by using eacli of the following as 
a suffix or prefix, and illustrate the meaning of the suffix 
or prefix: In, ad, ante, ate, ful, pre, semi, bi, sub, 
dom. 

5. Write a homonym of each of the following: Pole, 
hole, faint, seed, done. 

6. Form derivatives by uniting with the following 
words prefixes meaning: Again, not, wrongly, the op- 
posite act, before, print, fair, judge, obey, sight. 

7-10. Spell correctly the following words, spelled as to 
sound: Ven'zn, likoris, vaksinat, striknine (poison), frajil, 
sanggwin, plajiary, pawlzied, konshienshus, newter, lettis, 
surfit, isikle, preseed, teatotaler, fassade, auderble, para- 
slioot, seperation, assension. 

READING, 

fl'^irst, Second or Third Grade (JertiHcate.l 

1. Name some of the principal objects tliat should be 
aimed at in teaching reading, 

2. Give your idea of an appropriate recitation in a be- 
ginner's reading class. 

3. Define monotone, inflection, modulation, emphasis, 
pitch. 

4. Define phrase, clause, paragraph, stanza, apostro- 
phe. 

5. Give your method for improving faulty articulation. 

6. (a) Is reading an act of the mind or an act of the 
lips only ? (b) Give reasons for your answer. 

7-8. Read a paragraph of prose. 
9-10. Read one or more stanzas of poetry. 
(Examiner will grade from to 20 the 'last two ques- 
tions, and deliver the same to the Grading Committee. 



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UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

[Second or Third Grade Certltlcatt?.] 
* I. Wliat people claim to have discovered America first, 
and wliat do you tliiuli of their claim ? 

2. (a) Wiiat is ktiown of tiie govenuiient of tlie In- 
dians wiieii the colonists first arrived ? (h) Of tiie titles of 
tlieir leaders? (c) Of tiie character and name of tlieii- 
thvellings? (d) Of their domestic utensils? (e) Of tlieir 
clothinji: and food ? 

;{. Ciive an account of the first legislative body tliat as- 
sembled in the Colonies. 

4. \Vl)en, where, and by whom was tlie Declaration of 
independence written ? What body adopted it ? 

5. Wliat was the leading idea that led to the foundin}; 
of each of the following? Colonies: Virjginia, Maryland. 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, (ieorgia? 

6. Why are each of the following celebrated in lils- 
tory: Andre, Arnold, P^than Allen, John f3ndicott, Roger 
Williams, Ijafayette, Daniel Boone, Alexander Hamilton, 
Washington Irving, Alexander H. Stephens? 

7. Name the territory of the Ignited States acijuir/Hd 
by purchase; by conquest; by fiiujexation, 

8. How did people live, dress, travel and transmit mail 
in the days of Washington? 

9. (live the following facts in regard to your own coun- 
ty : (a) Early settlement; (I)) when and how it l)e<'ame a 
-separate county; (c) the origin of its name; (d) present 
population; (e) chief industries and future outlook. 

10. T;41 what you know of tJje terni, ''TJje (U'eater 
New York.*' 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

[First Grad£' CertiOcate, I 

1. What are the chief benefits to be derived from the 
study of history, and what subjects .should l)e taught in 
connection with it? 

2- Give the principal epochs in the history of what i.> 
anr.v the United States. 

8- DistinguLsh between the Provincial, Continental 
sind Federal Congress-jw. 

\. (Jive the meaning and origin of each of the follow- 
ang political terms: Loco-foco-s, Nullification, Free Soilers. 
Know-nothings, Undergt-<i«nd Railroad, Ser^ession, South- 
ern Confederacy, Emancipation, Carpet-baggers, Mug- 
wumps. 

5. (a) W^ho enunciated the doctrine, "To the victors 
i})eIono: the spoJLs "? /bj) What Ls jneant by "Civil Service 



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Kel'onir"? ((•) I'licler whose jidiniiiistratioii was it iiuui- 
•curated ? (d) What is likely to be the outcome of it? 

6. Wliat is meant by tli'e " Monroe Doctrine "? Wliat 
recent occurrence made this question prominent again ? 
Explain. 

7. Write five questions you would ask a class about the 
'• Dred Scott Decision/' 

8. Give a brief sketch of the first one of each in the 
Tnited States: (a) Railroad; (b) steamboat; (c) news- 
paper; (d) telegraph; (e) cotton gin. 

9. What do you understand l)y the '' llesuniption Act "' 
of 1879, and the Sherman Silver Bill repealed by special 
session of Congress in 1898? 

10. What do you understand by the " free and unlim- 
ited coinage of silver at the ratio of Ki to 1 "? 

ARITHMETIC. 

[Second or Third Grade Certiticile. I 

1. The divisor was 17, the quotient 16, the remaindt r 
\h\ what was the dividend ? 

2. Prove that the value of a fraction is unchanged 
when both the numerator and de-iominator are either mul- 
tiplied or divided by the same number. What change 
really occurs in either case ? 

'6. Reduce to a mixed number, %—'iy.\-\-\\-^%- 

4. Add six and four-ten-thousandths and ()-l.(K)4; di- 
minish their smn by sixty-nine and four ten-thousandths; 
multiply the dilference by four hundredths; divide the 
product by twenty thousand eighty ten-millionths, and 
write your answer in Roman characters or by Roman nota- 
tion. 

."). Divide 109 mi. 7 fur. 29 rds. 7 ft. 8 in. by \\. 

H. The longitude of Honolulu is 157° .50' 85" W., ami 
that of Washington is 77° 0' 15" W.; when it is 1 a. m.. 
July 4, at Washington, what is tiie date and hour at Hono- 
lulu ? 

7. What must be the marked price of hats costing 
$2.40 so as to gain 16§ per cent., though sold 20 per cent, be- 
low marked price ? 

8. A factor sold wheat on a commission of 4 ]5er cent., 
and invested the net proceeds in corn, after retaining Iiis 
commission of 8 per cent, for investing. If his entire coui- 
mission amounted to !f785, w'lat was the number of bushels 
of corn purchased, corn being qut)ted at 88^ cents a bnslnl ? 

9-10. On a note for .$9,600 for 1 yr. 6 mos., interest and 
discount each being 6 per cent., find each of the following: 
(a) The simple interest; (b) the annual interest; (c) the 
compound interest, interest compounded semi-annually; 
(d) the true discount; (e) the bank discount. 



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ARITHMETIC. 

[I'ii--.i Grade Cfititicaii-. ; 

1. A and B i-aii do a piece of work in IS days, A anil (' 
in 12 days, li and (' in 9 days; liow many tlay< will it take 
liieni. all workinu: io<it'tlier? 

2. ( 7i Xi+i I W. <»<»<».')=? 

8. A desires to lay out into square lots ot ilie <4'reatest 
possible i^Mze a piece of land 2013 rods loni; and 411 i'<»ds 
wide; how many lots will tiiere be? 

4. A sold a c'oiisijinment of cotton on H i;er cent, com- 
mission, he invested the proceeds in city lots, after deduct- 
iu<i' his purchase commission of 2 per cent. His whole 
connnission was $2(>o; what waw the price of the city lots? 

5. If 24h men, in hi ilays of 12 hours (^ach. di^ a ditch 
of 7 decrees of hardness, 2."{2i yards lonti;. Hjj yards wide, 
and 2i yards dt-ep; in how many days of it hours eacli, will 
24 men diji^ a ditch of 4 tiejifrees of hanhn .ss, 8H74 yards lont:. 
'\\ yj'.rds wide, and HA yartls <lee}) ? 

NoTK. — Use cause and eflVct rule, and cancellation. 

(i. Wiiat sum must he invested in stock heariujj,- (5A per 
cent, interest at lOo to produce an income of .'fil.lKil) an- 
nually ? 

7. A cul)e immersed in a rectangular reservoir ;'>fi inches 
long and Hi inches wide raises the water 8 inches; what is 
tlie edge of tlie cube ? 

H. A commission merchant received Ho.dOO bushels (»f 
n;its, which he sold at ."52 cents pel' bushel. He was insti'uct- 
ed to invest tlie proceeds, togetiier with $4,(MK) cash sent 
him, in print.>=i at hh cents per yai'd. If his commission, 
both for l)uying and for selling, was 2 per cent., iiow many 
yards of prints did he ))uy ? 

9. At a maj"k a cubic fool, what was the cost in United 
States money, of a solid cylindiical stone road-crusher, H ft, 
ii in. long, antl o ft, 4 in. in diameter? 

10. What will it cost in United States mom^y to gild a 
sphere 2 feet in diameter at one-half franc a square inch ? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[Sfcoiid or 'rhird Grade (lertificate 

1. (a) Into what classes are common nouns tlivided ? 
(b) Name all the pi'operties of nouns. 

2. (a) Give the ])iurals of: Wharf, clierub, crisis. Miss 
licy, p. (1)) (live the feminine.-; of: Czar, testaioi-, earl, 
peacock, sultan, 

H. AVrite the possessive case, singular and plural, of: 
Ivily. son-in-law, goose, ox, which, Knight-Templar, 
til let, poetess, child, thou. 

4. Define four classes of i)i"onouns, ;iiu! nn!)ie two of 
each class. 



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5. (jQUipare the following: Fine, peaceable, witty, 
hot, ill, fore, out, much, nimble, forth. 

6. Give all the classes of verbs: (a) As to form; (b) as 
to n^eaning, (c) Name all the modifications of the verb. 

7. Write the synopsis with t/um of the verb see througli 
nil modes and tenses ot the passive voice. 

H, Diagram and analyze : 

"' He who from zone to zone, 
Guides through the boundless sky the certain 
flight, 
In the long way that I must tread alone, 
Will guide my steps aright." 
y. Parse in full the italicized words in the following: 

(a) Not a word of (iMt, if you please. 

(b) It is believed by vKuiy that bribery 'mis used. 
\c) Is he as wise as Solomon ? 

(d) He has a disposition iwrth a mine of gold. 

(e) Be not Hke dumb, driven oitth\ 

U), Separate the following into all of its phrase and 
olause elements, and tell the kind and what each modifies: 
" He liveth long who livetli well; 

AH else is life but flung away; 
He liveth longest who can tell 
Of true things truly done each day." 

ENGLISH GRAMMAF. 

[Firsi Grade Certiftcate.} 

). Write sentences illustrating the use of: (a) Pronom- 
ial adjectives; (b) compound relative pronoun; (c) parti- 
(.-ipial adjectives; (d) infinitive used as a noun; (e| infini- 
tive used as an adverbial modifier. 

2. Write or quote a compound complex sentence, both 
subjects and predicates having clause modifiers. 

8. Th'jre has always been a question whether men who. 
are reared within the friction of great cities liave the better 
opportunities for developnieut, or whetlxer thev may be- 
come stronger or more robu&t from constant communion 
with the s.ublimity o.f nature, where the great peaks lift 
their faces to the skies and the streams make music as they 
flow toward the s.ea. — Ckav/es Ji. Fitch. 

(,a) Select from the above exercise and write in a. 
coUinm Wvi fallowing: An adjective phrase; 
an adverbial phrase; an adverb that modi- 
fies another adverb; a predicate noun ; two* 
adjectives in the coanparative degree, one 
compared by means of a sutflx, the other by 
means of an adverb; a relative pronoun; an 
intransitive verb; a verb in the potential 



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modo; two corrt'hitive (corresponding;, alter- 
nate) conjunctions. 

4. (s) Give all the modifications of an active transitive 
VHi'h. (b) Write the synopsis with Mck of the verb ftc in 
fh<- passive voic<" of all nioih-s and tenses. 

5. Diagram or write tln^ full analysis of the follownif?: 

"He praycth best who loveth l>est 
All thinji;s both great and small; 

For the dear (lod who loveth us, 
He made and loveth al!." 
H. Parse in full the words in italics in the following: 

(a) 'W/Vm/ with entreaty, '^'Imi with threatening, I 

succeeded." 

(b) "That is worth -while:' 

(c) *' Woe 'oorth the day." 

(d) " I took him for better or tiw-jc-." 

(e) "Forgive mey//>v this onte.'"' 

7. Write a sentence containing all the parts of speech. 

S. Write the principal i)arts of: Lie, sow, bear (car- 
ry), hew, iiold, lay, seethe, siiake, strow, strive. 

9-U). Correct the syntax in each of the following, and 
give the reason : 

(a) Virgil has often been compared to Homer. 

(b) Slie reads well for a new beginner. 

(c) Thou has helped us, and siiall we not pay you? 

(d) He don't improve mucli in writing. 

(e) Can I spt^ak to Mary? 
(f ) He is older than me. 

(g) P]veryone can master a grief l)ut he that hath 

it. 
(h) Who are you looking for. 
( i ) 1 will not permit of such conduct. 
( j) The jury could not agree in its verdict. 

GEOGRAPHY, 

[Mrst, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Draw a diagram of the glolie, marking thereon the 
lines which divide it into zones, the latitude of each line, 
and the width of eacli zone in degrees. 

2. (a) ]Sanie four important purposes subserved by the 
study of geograpliy. (b) Wlierein do these determine how 
tlie subject should be taught? 

;j, JSame lour important rivers in the United States 
which serve as State boundaries. Name the States thus 
hounded. 

4. Name five ol the chief industries of the following 
sections of the United States: (a) New England States; 
(1)) South Atlantic States; (c) North Central States; (d) 
Rocky ^Mountain States; (e) Culf States. 



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5. Make the following comparisons between Floridji 
atid California: Area; population; climate; physical feat- 
ures; products; wealth; wet and dry seasons; water 
courses; size of metropolis; animal life. 

6. To what countries would you go for large quantities 
of each of the following: Sugar; coffee; tea; opium; ivory; 
carpets; silk; sponges; cotton; wheat? 

7. Name the European countries now at war and the 
causes of the same. 

8. Give the following facts in regard to Cuba : Area in 
square miles; population; character of inhabitants; chief 
products; the reasons why Spain puts such value upon the 
island. 

9. Compare South America and Africa ; (a) As to lati- 
tude; (b) general outline; (c) character and number of in- 
habitants; (d) products; (e) general importance to man- 
kind. 

10. (a) Name five leading imports to tlie Tnited States 
and the countries from which each comes, (b) F'ive lend- 
ing exports and the States producing each. 

COMPOSITION. 

[First, Secoml or Third Grade (Jeriiflcaie.l 

1. Why is short daily practice in composition product- 
ive of greater skill in writing well than longer and less 
frequent exercises? 

2. Give four rules for the use of the comma; two for 
the use of the semicolon; four requisites of a good style. 

3. (a) Why is it necessary to paragraph ? (b) Wliat 
should be the relation of eacli paragraph to the otliers and 
to the subject? (c) Of each sentence to tlie others and to 
tlie paragraph ? 

4. Define and illustrate each: Simile, metaphor, met- 
onymy, synedoche, vision, epigram, personification, 
climax, irony, hyperbole. 

5. (a) From what sources should pupils get the basis 
for their composition? (b) Wliy is an outline important 
in writing a composition ? 

6-10. Prei)are an outline and write a composition of not 
less than two hundred words on one of the following sub- 
jects: 

(a) Bribery in Elections. 

(b) Summer Schools for Teacliers. 

(c) Present Needs of Our Pul)lie Scliools. 

(d) Necessity for Broad Scholarship in a Teacln^-. 

(e) Necessity for Teachers to be Extensive Read- 

ers. 
^^~The Grading Committee will consider the following 
in valuing the composition: Capitalization, punctuation, 
spelling, paragraphing, diction, style, value of the tlionght, 
and general appearance. 



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PHYSIOLOGY, 

[First Second or Third tirade Certificate. 1 

1. (a) JlhistrHtH three uses of hone, (h) How oould 
you tie a hone into a knot? 

2. Wlinre is eat'h of rlie follo\viii<^ »;iaiuls located: 
Lachrymal. sel)ace<nis. salivary, perspiratory, lyuipiiatic ? 

:5. Descrihe three functions of tiie skin. (»ive rules 
lor tile care of the skin. 

4. Name the orjj^ans and juices, and describe the pro- 
cess of dij^estion till the food becomes chyle. 

"). Tell in detail the bad effects of fast eatinj?: of lar;re 
lii'auj^hts of ice water while eatinff. 

H. Describe minutely the functions of ti)e liver. 

7. (a) Tell the importance of exercise., (b) When 
sliould it be sparing or avoided? (c) What the uses of 
sleep? (d) Why do children re(iuire more than adults? 
(e) Name four means nature has provided for protecting; 
I he eyes, 

H. Desciibe the cerebrcj-spinal system. 

9. (H) Are hypodermic injections of narcotics dele- 
terious ? Describe the effects of alcohol on each of the 
followinfr: (b) The brain; (c) the sto'.-.iach; (d)the kid- 
neys; (e) the blood. 

10. (a) What is the poisonous e?einent in tobacco? (b) 
Wily are ci},?arottes injurious to a fjrowinji; boy? (c) Svhat 
are I lie effects of breathin<i: expired air? (d) How would 
.\'ou ventilate a schoolroom? (e) How should a bedroom 
be ventilated ? 

^jj^Answer all (juestions concisely, simply show that 
you have read the work carefully and grasped the idea. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE, 

I From Ilewetfs reda.t;o};\ . ) 

[First. Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. (I) What is pedagogy? (2) Name the three "im- 
material powers of n)an." (8) Name and define the four 
jxnvers of the Intellect. (4) illustrate the office of each of 
these by comparing "Knowledge to grain." (.5) Give the 
sul)divisions of these four powers as presented in " Scheme 
II. (Chapters 1,11 and ill.) 

2. 'Define tlic following: (1 ) Conscience; (2) The Will; 
(.-5) A faculty; (4) Consciousness; (.5) Attention. 

(Chapter IV.) 

8. (1) What is education? (2) Distinguish between 
learning and etiucation. (3) Illustrate the relation of 
teacher and pupil by representing the teaclier as a " gar- 
dener." (4) Illustrate by using the "fence and hedge" 
tiiat there is no "siiortcut" to an education. (5) When 
si)ould special education begin ? (Cliapter V.) 



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4. (1) Name ten of the powers of the mind of a child 
necessary to develop, and for which "Hints on Training" 
are given. (2) In training the sensibilities, name the five 
emotions necessary to strengthen. (3) How may a pupil's 
love for yourself be awakened, and what should be done 
with the teacher who says, " I never did love children " ? 
(4) How may the "•attention of a child" be gained, and 
how can it not be secured? (5) In developing in a child 
the emotion of " hatred," what caution should be observed ? 
(Chapters VI-VIII.) 

5. (1) Name the most important factor in any school, 
or system of education. (2) Name three proper motives 
for teaching. (3) When, and in which " tliree distinct 
fields " should be made preparation for teaching? (4) "I 
spoiled a hatful of eyes in learning"; explain the connec- 
tion and what pedagogical principle was illustrated t)y this 
remark. (5) What objection is urged by "the school-keep- 
er" for not progressing in his profession? (Chapter IX.) 

6. (1) Mention four intellectual and four " moral habits " 
a teacher should cultivate in himself. (2) Stress the im- 
portance of a teacher's first day in school, and name six 
duties pertaining to the " first day's work." (3) Distinguish 
between "tell, teach and train." (4) Illustrate the latter 
by using the "blacksmith's" apprentice. (5) Give some 
advantages of a dailv programme of exercises. 

(Chapters XI-XIII.) 

7. (1) What is the relative importance of management 
as compared with instruction and training? (2) What 
should the teacher govern in himself? (3) What is said of 
corporal punishment, and how it should be administered ? 
(4) Name some of the specific qualities in a teacher essen- 
tial to good discipline. (5) Mention as many as you can of 
the twelve principles enunciated as aids to good manage- 
ment. (Chapters XIV and XV.) 

8. (1) Give the five essential elements of a good recita- 
tion. (2) What is it that prompts the teacher to recite for 
his pupil? (3) Who does most of the talking in a model 
recitation ? (4) What is said of " leading questions " ? (5) 
What is said of concert recitations, and of asking questions 
around the class in regular order ? (Chapters XXI and 
XXII.) 

9. (1) " Reading is talking from a book "; discuss this 
in ten lines so as to develop what is true "oral reading," 
and how it should be taught. (2) When scientifically 
taught, what two other subjects is a primary pupil learning 
while learning to read ? (3) What does modern education 
say should be taught, which some of the "old masters con- 
sidered criminal to catch a child doing"? (4) Does tech- 
nical grammar, as usually taught, drill in the correct use 
of the English language? (5) At what stage in a pupil's 



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education should technical grainmar be taken up? (Chap- 
ters XXIII and XIX.) 

10. (1) How may proper relations between teaclier and 
school otticers and parents be secured and maintained? 
(2) To what account may the teacher turn exhibitions and 
Friday evening' exercises? (3) How may a teacher avoid 
•'shriveling up into a mere pedagogue " in the estimation 
of practical men ? (4) May a teacher play with his pupils ? 
(.")) What says Hewett of*'' Oh, anybody can teach little 
children " ? ' (CUiapter XX. ) 

J^i^This paper is made long purposely, hoping to In^ 
vite a careful reading of the book by those who have not 
digested it. Tlie Grading Committee 'm instructed to give 
a rising mark to any examinee who answer.s ten of- the 
questions fully and well. 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 

[Kirst Grade Certiticate. 1 

1. Why should Civil Government be tauglit in public 
scliools'? 

2- (xive the three branches of the general governnient, 
and tell why it is best to have so many. 

8- (a) What body usually elects a President? <b) 
Who selects this body, and how many representatives has 
this State in it? (c) What are the three conditions of eli- 
gibility to the Presidency? 

4. (a) What are the qualifications for ITnited States 
>Senator? (b) Distinguish between Joint and Executive 
Session, (c) How is a U. S. Senator elected? /d) Wliat 
change in method is desired and how may it be secured ? 
<e) Who fills vacancies in this office, and under what con- 
<Utions does sucli a Senator fail to geJ^ liis seat? 

5. Explain what is meant by impeachment; describe 
the method and tell whicli body imj^eaches. 

6. Tell what is meant by the following-: jfa) A patent; 
0)) a copyright; fc) felony; (d) piracy; (e) treason; (f) 
nn alien; (g) a naturalized citizen; (h) a passport; (i) im- 
ports; (j) tariff for revenue- 

7. (a) Distinguish between a territory and a State, (b) 
Give in brief the duties of executive officers of this State. 

8- (a) How many luembers compose each branch of 
the Florida Legisbiture ? (b) What the Constitutional 
limit of the session and per diem of the members? (c) 
iiive the different st-eps necessary in making a State law. 

9. What is meant by eaji'h of the following: Writ of 
Jia))eas corpus; ex post facto law; ))ill of attainder; a ger- 
iVymander; a filibuster? 

10- Answer the following in regard to school law: 

/a) \\'\\o has the power to establish and numl)erja 
.school district ? 



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(b) Wlio is authorized to fix salaries and employ 

teachers, and what is necessary to make 
both binding? 

(c) Who may vote in an ordinary school meeting? 

In a subdistrict election ? 

(d) What are the sources of State school revenue ? 

What constitutes County school fund? 

(e) Wlmt in your judgment constitutes good moral 

character in a teacher? 

^f) Are certificates or diplomas granted in other 
States valid in this? 

(g) Between what ages may children legally at- 
tend a ].ublic school ?* 

(h) What pupils may be charged tuition, and wiiat 
must be done with the money ? 

(i) What number of hours service constitute a 
school day ? What number of days a school 
month? Has any Board tlie right to de- 
mand a greater number for a month's 
salary ? 

( j) To wliom and how often should a teacher re- 
port ? What the consequences if he fails to 
I'eport, or if his report he incomplete or in- 
correct ? 

ALGEBRA. 

! l<"irst (irade Ceniticaie.l 
\. (a) Prove that any quantity witii a v:en> exponent 

e(|Uals 1; (l>")tliat « m=: 

am 

2. Factor x« - 1 , 8x-+28x-fl4, and x'»- v«. 
H. Find the G. V. D. of 8x«-4x^'+8xv''— 2v=* and 4x- — 
Txy+8y^ 

4. Find the L. ('. M. of a'^-.-Jab+ib^ a''-ab-2.b^ and 
a^-b^ 

5. Find the values or x ami y, and illustrate three 
methods of elimination with the e(iuations .'ix-lpov = 19 and 
r>x-4y=:7. 

H. Five yeai"s ago the age of a father was four times 
tliat of liis son. Five years hence the age of the lather will 
be 2^ times that of his .son. How old is each ? 

T. Expand by use of the binomial theorem. i:2a^+8bc)^. 

V 6x-2 4v 6x-9 

!S. Find the value •xf x m — = =- — = — 

1 fix+2 4i 6x+« 

9. Find the time between 8 and 4 t)'clock wtieu tlii* 
hands of a watch make a straight Hue. 



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10. Tlie joint stock of two partners was $1,(MM»; A's 
inonev was ill trade 9 months, B's (5 months; when tliey 
shared stock mid gain, A received .i;l,l4(). and H ^fi4!), Wliat 
was each man's stock? 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

! t-'ii'st lirade Certiticaie. ] 

1. To what five other sciences is physical <;eojxraphy 
intimately related? 

2. I)istin<?iiish f)etween oceanic and continental isl- 
ands. Illnstrate hy namini^ examples. 

:>. Explain the origin of winds and tides; and acconnt 
for constant oceanic currents, 

4. What are geysers and glaciers? (ilve the tlieory of 
the forrriation of each. 

5. Account for volcanoes and earthipjakes, and tell 
why they are confined to certain sections. 

H. WJjat does the history of animal life, as recorded in 
the rock.s, show ? 

7. Define eJ'osion, fossil, delta, cany«»n, nionsooji. 

H. Exi)lain why mountain tops under tije direct rays of 
« tropical sun are covered with snow; and tell what pur' 
j)oses such mountains subserve. 

9. Wiiat is snow, hail, dew, rain, frost ? 

h). Account for the origin of coal; of coal ojl. 



SEPTEMBER, 1897. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

f I'Mrst. Second oi- 'I'hird Grade Certiticate.l 

1. (a) Distinguish J)etween the jnerits of oral and writ- 
ten spelling, (h) Give reasons wliy neither siiould l>e dis- 
<rarded altogether. 

2. Unite the following and give the rule for spelling in 
each case: Blame — able, charge — able, pale — ness, true — ly. 
busy — ness, duty — ous, spry — ly, snob — ish, prefer — ed, ))en- 
efit — ing. 

8. Syllabicsir*' an,'l juarik diaeritically the vowel in tlie 
accented syllHble|only:-Jnvt>^ntory.. dolorous, quinine, dec- 
ade, idea, inquiry, abdomen, bicycle, towards, ho- 
rizon. 

4. Form a derivative word liy using each of the follow- 
ing as a suffix, and illustrate the meaning of each suffix: 
JF]n', dom, ness. ism, ity, cle, ling, able, ary, ous. 



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5. Define each word formed by uniting in order to a 
root a prefix meaning: From, not, towards, beyond, 
witi),, between, down, before, around, lialf. 

6. Write a paronym of each ot the following: Man. 
principle, pendant, corporal, stationary. 

7. Write and define a liomonym for each of tlie follow- 
ing: Need, rabbit, corps, seller, quire, cygnet, bald, 
bruise, fame, plain. 

8. Write in order a synonym of each of the following: 
Custom, invent, dexterity, ' prolific, antique, revolt, 
rough, eminent, misfortune, accelerate. 

9-10. If wrong, correct the spelling of the following: 
Ee/.le, domisil, etteet, desendant, silinder, demagog, fik- 
tishus, catapiller, manicle, etoinoiogy, ekstacy, elemosin- 
ary, aleet, F^skimo, effishent. indelable, rhinoceros, satalite, 
sintillate. hypokracy. 

READING. 

[First, Second or Third Grade (.'ertitieate.l 

1. Name five otlier branches that should be taught in 
connection with the reading lesson. 

2. Wliat two ordinary school appliances does the scien- 
tific teacher of primary reading use more than chart or 
primer? 

'A. (a) Define reading, (b) Distinguish between silent 
reading and oral, (c) Distinguish between teaching reading 
and a process of word calling, ((i) Would you begin with 
scrijit or print with a primary class in reading? (e") Giv^- 
reasons for your last answer. 

4. (a) Distinguish between the word metliod, phonic. 
seutence, and letter metliods.. (1)) When should the phonic 
method be dropped ? 

5. (a) Make an outline analysis of how you would teach 
a cla.ss in the Second Reader, which had been properly 
taught in the First. (b> What changes would you make in 
your method ami objects in teaching an advanced reading- 
class ? 

6-8. Read for your examiner a paragrapl^ of prose. 
y-ltU Read an extract of poetry. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

fSecond or Third Grade Certiflcate.l 

1. Tell fsx>m whcvm and how the United States obtainetf 
the territory embraced within each of the following States: 
Louisiana, Ohio, Florida, California, Alaska. 

2. (a) When and Ijy wliom were negroes introduced in- 
to the United States? (b> When and l)y what authority 
was the slave trade prohibited ? 



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;}. Recall the peculiar circuinstanees of the Presiden- 
tial efections of IWIO and lH24,and teli wherein tliey difft-red 
from tile contest of 1S76. 

4. Tell all you know of each of the following: (a) The 
"Hartford Convention"; (b) the Nullification Ordinance. 

5. In wliat consists tlie cliief difference between the 
New Enfiland and tiie Soutlieru conceution of the U. S. 
Constitution? 

6. What is meant by the following: (a) Tariff for reve- 
nue? (b) Reciprocity ? (c) Free Silver? (d) Civil Service? 
(e) Free Trade? 

7. Couple the name of the inventor with five of the 
most important American inventions. 

8. In pleadinf>- for what cause did each of the follow- 
\\\<^ render Iiimself famous as an orator: Samuel Adams, 
Wendell Phillips, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Benj. 
H.Hill? 

9. Name the States admitted into the Union since the 
Civil War. 

10. (a) What did President McKinley do immediately 
after he came into office? (b) What law has just been 
passed in consecpience of his action? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

(P'irst Grade Certificate.! 

1. (a) What of tlie Mound Builders? (b) What evi- 
dence can you {i;ive to prove that they were not the ances- 
tors of the Indians? 

2. I'pon wlitvt basis did each of the following lay claim 
to lands now in the United States: (a) Spain; (b) France; 
(c) England; (d) Holland? 

8. Write a sketch of Washington's administration, 
noting: (a) His foreign policy; (b) the notions of the peo- 
ple in regard to the government; (c) the rise of political 
parties; (d) condition of home affairs on assuming the 
presidency; (ej condition on his retiring from office. 

4. Discuss the " Doctrine of State Riglits " in the light 
of the following: (a) Kentucky and Virginia resolutions; 
(])) Massacliusetts Legislature relative to the war of 1812; 
(c) the "Hartford Convention "; (d) the Nullification Ordi- 
nance of South Carolina; (e) the Ordinance of Secession. 

5. Distinguish between the '' Virginia Plan " and the 
" New Jersey Plan " in the U. S. Constitutional Conven- 
tion. 

6. Trace briefly tlie financial policy of the United 
States rrom Alexander Hamilton to Wm. McKinley. 

7. Tell why each of the following became distinguished 
in American history: Wm. H. Prescctt, Elias Howe, 
Charles Sumner, William Cullen Bryant, Eli Whitney. 



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8. What do the stars and what the stripes signify iu 
our flag? When was this flag first used? ' 

9. Name the great political parties of today, and give 
the distinguishing features in the platform of each. 

10. Tell what you know about the circumstances which 
each of the following suggests: (a) Weyler; (b) Klondike. 

ARITHMETIC, 

rSecond or Thirci Grade Certificite.l 

1. If I of 4f bushels of beans cost .$51, what will % of \ 
of 20 bushels cost ? 

2. (a) l-fx 1+41-33+4,^=: ? 

(b) (i-|)X(i+4|)^(3§+4/^)=? 

3. Multiply 16 by sixteen hundredths, divide the prod- 
uct by sixteen ten-thousandths and ex^jress the quotient by 
Roman notation, 

4. (a) What is the value of the wheat, at %\\ a bushel, 
in a box 10^ ft. long, 5^ ft. wide, and {^\ ft. deep, the box be- 
ing level full, (Use approximate rule in gauging the box.) 
(b) If a cask containing .^'„ the capacity of the above box is 
half full of wine, what will be its value in U. S, money at 
10 francs a gallon ? 

5. A teacher invests $200 in books at 33^ per cent, be- 
low list price and sells them to his students at 16| per cent, 
above list price; what per cent, does he make on his invest- 
ment? 

6. A trader sells two horses for $100 each ; on one he 
gains 20 per cent., on the other he loses 20 per cent. Did he 
gain or lose, and what per cent, on both horses? 

7. Divide 2 sq. mi. 120 A. 8 sq. ch. 12 P. 500 sq. 1. 
equally between 8 heirs, (Do not reduce the whole to 
square links.) 

8. Find the square root of the third power of 1.6 cor- 
rect to four decimal places. 

9. (a) A receives a semi-annual income of $1HI) from 
Florida 6's; what was his total investment in bonds if tliev 
were quoted at 1104, brokerage i of 1 per cent.? (b) What 
annual rate does the investment' pay if the interest for the 
first half of each j^ear is immediately loaned at I per cent, 
a month ? 

10. If a tank 6 ft. long, 3 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep con- 
tains 4^ hogsheads of water, how deep must a tank ))e that 
is 8 ft. long and 5| ft. wide to contain 22^ hogsheads of 
water? 



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ARITHMETIC, 

[I-'irst Grade Certificate.! 

1. B sells { of his cattle to A, I to (', ? of the remain- 
der to I), and find.-; that 48 head is -^ of what he has left. 
How many cattle had he at first? 

2. Sev(M) men start together aronnd an island 120 miles 
ill circumference, 'nu-h walkin<r ">, 6^, T.'j, 8j, l)i. loj and 11^ 
miles an hour respectively. In liow many diiys will they 
all be togfether again, if they walk 12 hoursa day ? 

.'5. The sides of a triangular lot are lloi ft.,'l28j ft. and 
184f ft. respectively. HoM- many boards will it take, and 
what will it cost to fence it with lumber at $7i per M., the 
longest boards possible being used, and the fence being 5 
boards high, the bottom one 10 in. wide, two 6 in. wide, and 
the others -i in. wide ? 

4. A and B are partners. A's capital is to B'.s as 5 to 
S; at the end of 4 months A withdraws \ of his capital and 
B i; of his. At the end of the year their whole gain is !ii4(K), 
liow much of the gain does each get ? 

5. A grocer bought .'36 bu. .'i qt. of nuts at .$8.20 a bushel, 
and sold tliem at 12 cent> a li(|uid quart. Did he gain or 
lose, and how many dollars ? 

6. At what i)er cent. l)elow par must 4^ per cent, stock 
be quoted, to yield the same per cent, on the investment as 
5| per cent, stock at a premium of 23i per cent., brokerage 
i per cent, in each case? 

7. At Washington, 77 degrees west longitude, it is 12 
minutes past 7 p. m., while it is 2 p. m. on the Sandwich 
Lslands; what is the longitude of the Sandwich Islands, 
and are they east or west of Washington? 

8. A square lot is bordered by a walk 1 yd. wide, the 
lot and walk together occupy 2* acres; find the cost of pav- 
ing the walk at 25 cts. a sq. yd, 

9. If a sphere 2 ft. 1 in. "in diameter weighs .8,125 lbs., 
what is the diameter of one of the same material weiahinir 
<S19.2 lbs.? 

10. Find by approximate rule the number of bushels 
of grain in a conical vessel whose base is 8 ft. in diameter 
and altitude 4 ft. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

[Second or Tliird Grade Certificate.] 

1. Write both the possessive singular and plural of the 
following: Miss Ley, sister-in-law, countess, chimney, 
solo, deer, ox, who, it, x. 

2. Decline in both numbers each of the simple personal 
pronouns. 

3. Write all the participles and infinitives, both active 
and passive, of the verb love. 



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4. Compare the following; Little, able, prettj^ beau- 
tiful, infinite, near, far, much, lioly, wholly. 

5. Give all the properties and the order of stating them 
in parsing (a) The noun; (b) the verb. 

6. Diagram this sentence: This examination will be 
easy for those teachers who habitually prejjare the lessons 
before attempting to teach them. 

7. Write the synopsis with he of the verb am in all 
moods and tenses. 

8. Parse in full every word in the sentence : He got 
wliat he deserved. 

9. Give comjalete analysis of the following, Hnd parse 
in full the words in italics : 

"•The patriot, whom the corrupt tremble to see arise, 
may well feel a grateful satisfaction in the mighty power 
which lieaven has delegated to him, when he thinks that he 
has used it for those purposes only which heaven approves." 

10. Correct each of tlie following and give the reason : 

(a) Each woman brought their work with them. 

(b) My mother she thinks I am too young. 

(c) That couple are very devoted to one another. 

(d) It never has and never can be done. 

(e) He acts like he was sick. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[First Grade Certirtcate.l 

1. Parse in full the words italicized in the following: 
^'- Gre-citlY pleased, t'le sturdy warrior lifted his own 

liat, and said, ' I honor the man or boy who can be neithei- 
bribed nov frightened into doing -wrong. With an army of such 
soldiers, I could conquer not only the French, Imt the world; ' 
and, handing the boy a glittering sovereign, tlie old duke put 
spurs to his horse and galloped away." 

2. Account for all the marks of punctuation in the 
above. 

3. Give the two principal clauses in the above quota- 
tion. 

4. Select and classify all the object complements in 
tlie above quotation. 

5. Make in order a list of all of each in the above: (a) 
Adjective elements; (b) adverbial elements. 

6. Write the synopsis in the j)assive voice of the verl) 
cheat witli he in all moods and tenses. 

7. Write a sentence with an infinitive used: (a) As a 
noun; (b) as an appositive; (c) as an adjective; (d) as an 
adverb; (e) as an object complement. 

8. Diagram or analyze: 

" The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark 
When neither is attended; and I think 
The nightingale, if she should sing bv dav 



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When every goose Ls cackling, would be tlioughf 
No better a musician than the wren." 
9-10. C'orrect each of the following, if wrong, and givn 
tlie reason for each change : 

(1) It is he and not I that is to blame. 

(2) Those kind of sentences are confusing. 

(8) Would you strike your wife — her who lias al- 

ways been so devoted to you ? 

(4) It is natural for every one to esteem rheir own 

best. 

(5) He looks bad, and I feel badly. 

(6) If we study the science of teaching we will 

teach well. 

(7) He intended to be tliere. 
(S) It has laid there for a week. 

(9) Can I leave the room ? 

(l(») He died witl) ylelow fever. 

GEOGRAPHY, 

[First. Second or Third Grade Certificate. ] 
I. (1) Give the number of great circles extending north 
and south; (2) the number east and west. (8) Give reasons 
for your answer. 

•^ 2. Mention the States through wliich a car of salt must 
2)ass by a direct I'oute from Salt Lake City to Boston. 

H. Name the provinces of Canada and the chief indus- 
tries of each, 

4. Name the leading industry of the following: Oma- 
ha, Milwaukee, Augusta (Ga.), Cleveland, Pittsburg. 

5. (1) Name the longest and the shortest day in the 
year. (2) Explain why each is so. 

6. Give the names of all the principal divisions of land 
and water crossed by the ecxuator. 

7. Give proofs that the etirth rotates on its axis from 
west to east. 

S. Name all the governments of Europe, and the me- 
tropolis of each. 

9. Tell the following of Cuba: (1) Between what paral- 
lels; (2) area in square miles; (3) climate; (4) productions; 
(5) races and character of the people. 

10. Draw a township, number its sections, subdivide 
the 16th as much as is necessary to place a cross (X) in the 
SEi of SEi of NW^. 



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COMPOSITION, 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate. j 

1. (a) Name the most general use of composition, (b) 
Give the six parts of a formal letter. 

2. Write a formal letter of at least five lines to some 
tirn'i in New York, in which all of the six parts are proper- 
ly located, capitalized, punctuated, and signed by a ficti- 
tious name. 

8. Give rules for using direct, indirect and divided 
quotations, and for paragraphing. 

4. Discuss diction, and give rules for acquiring elegant 
diction. 

5. Give your ideas how and how often composition ex- 
ercises should be conducted in every school. 

6-10. Make a topical outline of not less than five heads, 
including the introduction, discussion and conclusion, and 
write a composition of not more than 800 words on one of 
the following subjects: 

(1) The Use and Abuse of Examinations. 

(2) The Schoolmaster's Place in Society. 

(3) The Pleasures of a Well Informed Mind. 

(4) The Value of County Institutes and Summer 

Schools. 

(5) Why the Rich are Influential. • 
Note. — In grading the composition consider the or- 
thography, capitalization, punctuation, paragraphing, dic- 
tion, the value of the thought expressed, and tlie general 
appearance. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certirtcate.l 

1. (1) Of what service is the skeleton? (2) How is the 
spinal cord formed, and what purpose does it subserve? 
(8) What is the composition of bone? (4) How many in 
the body? (5) Name some of the most important ones." 

2. (1) Name the two grand divisions of muscles. (2) 
Describe their structure and give the uses of each class. 
(8) Describe and tell the office of tendons. (4) Give the 
name and office of the largest tendon in the body, (5) Con- 
sidering the muscles, what is the value of exercise and 
rest ? 

8. (1) Describe the structure of the skin. (2) Tell six 
functions of the skin. (3) What is the value of bathing; 
the kind; the time for it? (4) Why is clothing necessary? 
(5) Give the disadvantages of too tight, too heavy, unclean, 
wet, cheaply dyed clothing. 

4. Name all the organs, and describe the whole process 
of digestion, including the action of all fluids until the 
food enters circulation or becomes tissue. 



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5. (1) What is food in a physiological sense? (2) Or- 
ganic food is divided into what two general groups? (3) 
What are chemical constituents of each group? (4) From 
what sources are each of these constituents found in the 
greatest abundance? (5) Name the inorganic foods, and 
tell why each of the following is needed: Lime, phos- 
phorus, iron and the alkalis. 

6. Tell to which class, the albuminoid or carbonaceous, 
'■ach of the following belongs, and its value as a food prod- 
uct: Fish, milk, butter, eggs, wheat bread, sweet potatoes, 
peas, apples, onions, mustard. 

7. How do alcoiiolic stimulants affect each of the fol- 
lowing: Heart, liver, kidneys, brain, and nerves? 

8. (1) Can the evil effects of it be transmitted b.\- 
parent to child? (2) Why are malt liquors and light wines 
dangerous? (.3) Give some of the evil effects of tobacco, 
especially upon the young. (4) Name some of the narcot- 
ics, and tell what effect they liave u]K)n the system. 

9. AVhat is most likely to induce sunstroke, what the 
s.\'mi5toms, and what should be the treatment if no phy- 
sician is near? 

10. Dis('uss the evils of bad cooking and tlie value of 
right cooking. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE 

8®""'Questioiis on White's School Jfanagenient. first l.')0 pai^es, 

[First. Hecond ov Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. What, says the author in the preface, are the two 
most obstructive foes of needed progress in school traiu- 
uig? 

2. (1 ) What serves as " a guide in practice" in deter- 
mining the best means and methods of teaching? (2) What 
is said of "test of devices"? (3) of '' wortlilessness of 
scores of device? " ? (-I) What is the end of school disci- 
pline? (5) Name the six topics to be considered in a prac- 
tical treatnient of school government. 

3. Name the seven essential '' eleinents of governing 
power." 

4. (1) What does ths teacher need more than "person- 
al magnetism " and "natural aptitude"? (2) Give reasons 
for the necessity of " daily study," and quote the rea.*on of 
Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, why he did it. 

5. Give in brief tlie argument used under the sub- 
heads; (1) "Acquisition of skill"; (2) "Individuality"; 
(3) "Crank turning "; (4) "Teacher's personal example"; 
(5) " Teacher's spirit." 

6. What law would the author, if lie had the power, 
write over every schoolroom door ? 

7. Name six " requisite qualifications," wJiicli are 
" conditions of easv control." 



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8. (1) Give the author's disthictioii between a '^ condi- 
tion" and a "•device" in school government. (2) Name 
the four ''mechanical devices." (3) Give a kind of synop- 
tical brief of the arguments advanced for the adoption of 
each of the above devices. 

9. Name " the seven school virtues " of every well 
ordered school. 

10. Under the head, '' School Incentives," give in or- 
der the " royal nine." 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT, 

i First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Distinguish between four different forms of govern- 
ment. 

2. Describe briefly each of the ''four groups of rights." 

3. (a) Explain what is meant by Magna Charta; (b) 
the origin of taxes. 

4. (a) What is meant by the supreme law of the United 
States? (b) Describe the three departments of government 
for which it provides. 

5. (a) What is the necessity for political parties? (b) 
Name all the conventions necessary to secure a nominee 
for President, (c) Give some of the benefits and some of 
the evils of the convention system, (d) Which is the most 
important in the system of conventions? 

6. (a) What is a State? (b) Name the departments of 
a State government, (c) Give in brief the duties of the 
Administrative officers of this State, (d) Give the number 
of State Senatorial districts and the number of lower house 
or assembly districts, in this State, (e) Tell how a terri- 
tory becomes a State. 

7. (a) How did it happen that Congress was composed 
of two hotises ? (b) For how long, and who elect members 
of each house? (c) What are the qualifications for mem- 
))ership in each? (d) How are vacancies in each house 
filled ? 

8. Give the Executive Departments of the Federal 
(Tovernment. 

9. (a) What was the object of "Tlie Australiati Ballot 
System "? (b) Give the main features of it. 

10. (a) Who is a school patron ? (b) Who are qualified 
electors in choosing a school .supervisor? (c) State the du- 
ties of a supervisor, (d) Who has the authority to form 
school districts and to assign teachers? (e) What is meant 
l)y the one mill tax, and what is done with it? 



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ALGEBRA, 

[First Grade Certificate.! 



1. Simplify (a-'-f b2+c2+2ab+2bc+2ac)--(a b— c). 

2, A man walking \ miles per hour has 80 minutes the 
start of a boy on a bicycle. How many miles per hour 
must the boy go in order to overtake the man in 20 minutes. 

8. Give the prime factors of the following: 

m3-n3. a^+n'^ a»— bs, p4-(-p2_j_i, n'^,-2 no-fo^. 

4. Of the following quantities, x^-2x3+6x-9, ex^-lx^ 
-16x2+12x-6 find: (a) G. C. D.; (b) L. C. M. 

5. A and B, in a game of baseball, are each at the bat 
15 times. B makes 2 hits to A's 1, and A gets out 1^ times 
as many times as B. Find the number of hits and outs of 
each, supposing each gets out when he does not make a hit. 

6. Raise 2a'^-(-4b^ to the 7th power by the binomial 
t heorem. 

7. Multiply (x-y)S by (x+y)*. 

8. Find the values of x in x- 1=2+^:1 



X 



9. Find the values of x and v: 

-L-_L=8; J_-_L=21 
X y x'^ y' 

10. A man purchased a field, whose length was to its 
breadth as 8 to 5. Tlie number of dollars paid per acre was 
equal to the numb'jr of rods in the length of the field; and 
the number of dollars given for the whole was equal to 18 
times the number of rods round the field. Required the 
length and breadth of the field. 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, 

FMrst Grade Certiticate.l 

1. Of what does physical geography treat? 

2. (1) Explain the cause of night and day. (2) The 
causes of the changes of seasons. 

3. Distinguish between maps of« the earth on the fol- 
lowing projections: (1) Mercator's; (2) equatorial; (3) 
polar; (-f) conical. 

4. Give proofs of the present heated condition of the 
interior of the earth. 

5. (1) What is an atoll? (2) What does their existence 
in any part of the earth prove? 

6. (1) How are tides caused ? (2) Distinguish between 
ebb, flood, spring, and neap tides. 

7. (1) Give proofs that the greater weight of the at- 
mosphere lies within a few miles of the earth's surface. 
(2) Explain the origin of winds. 

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8. Give the characteristio fauna of the followiug: (I) 
I^orth America; (2) South Axnerioa; (3) Australia; (i) 
Greenland; (6) Cuba. 

9. (1) Distiuouish between vertical and horizontal 
distribution of vegetation. (2) What are the conditions 
requisite for forests ? 

10. Tell the following of Alaska: (1) Its area; (2) its 
principal islands ; (8) its principal trees; (4) its principal 
finimals; (5) describe the river systeni of the Yukon, 



JUNE, 1898. 

ORTHOGRAPHY, 

rPirst. Second oi' Third Grade ('crtiticate.l 

1. Define: Orthography, primitive word, derivative 
word, prefix, suffix. 

2. Unite each of tlie following primitive words witli 
tlie suffix, and give the rule for the spelling: CUose — ure, 
sing^ — ing, charge— able, planning, fancy— ful. differ— - 
ed, prefer — ^ed, plenty — ^ous, red— =en, model — iiig. 

3. Separate the prefix and the root in the following de- 
rivatives and write after each prefix its meaning: Abed, 
afternoon, belittle, midsunimer, misname, withstand, 
mikind. outstrip, disobey, foresight. 

4. Form a derivative by using each of the following as 
a prefix or suffix, and define each word formed: Age. ery, 
cule-, dom, fule, ish, ity, ment, uess, post. 

5. Write the following and opposite each a. homonym: 
Rude, sear, surf, serge, auger, throw, team, suite, 
root, strait, 

6. Syllabicate and mark diacritically the vowel in the 
syllable primarily accented in each of the following: In-. 
ventory, financier, aUy, gratis, apparatus, sinecure, re- 
cess (noun), agriculture, abdomen, altej-nately. 

7. Form ten derivatives by using as a prefix or suffix 
each of the following, once only, meaning: One who, across, 
times, between, like, against, little, without, full of, 
Uiade of. 

8-10. Spell correctly : Damning (obstructing), bulitin, 
census (enumeration), reserrection, restorant, separation., 
malliable, privilege, eorister, pregudice, hipokrit, projeny, 
orkestra, kleek, missle, 



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READING, 

fPirst, Second or Third Grade Certilicate.l 

1. 2\aine in order the steps you would pursue iu teach- 
ing' a beginner to read. 

2. Wlien a class has reached the Fifth Reader, state 
what you aim to accomplish by the reading exercises, and 
how you would conduct a recitation. 

;.{' Name the necessary qualifications of a successful 
teacher of reading. 

4. What other subjects should be taught in connection 
with readmg? 

5. Name the books you have read that have been es- 
pecially helpful in directing you how to teach reading. 

6. Read for the examiner, without previous knowledge 
of what you would read, a paragraph of i^rose. 

7. Read for the examiner, he selecting tne piece, one 
or more stanzas ot poetry. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[Second or Third Grade Certiticate.l 

1. Tell what you know of "Tiie Starving Time." and 
what followed in tiie early history of the country. 

2. Relate the story of the sending of wives to Virginia. 

8. V/hat of "bond servants," " redemptioners " and 
slaves, in the colonies. 

4. Tell the history of Patrick Henry, and his part in 
precipitating the Revolutionary War. 

5. Wliat forms of i-eligious worship were established 
by law in different sections before the Revolution? To 
whom is the country indebted for relig:ious freedom, free 
speech, and a free press? 

6. (a) Give an account of the United States navy in 
the war of 1812. (b) Give an account of the battle of Bla- 
densburg and the subsequent results. 

7. Why is each of the following celebrated in history: 
Arnold, Ethan Allen, John Endicott, Roger Williams, La- 
fayette, Daniel Boone, Alex. Hamilton, Washington Irv- 
ing, Alex. H. Stephens, Admiral Dewey. 

8. Describe the Civil War from Bull Run to Gettys- 
burg. 

9. Relate the history of the term, "The Greater New 
York." 

10. Tell the causes of the present war with Spain.- 



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UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. What are the chief benefits to be derived from the 
study of history, and what subjects should be taught in 
connection with it ? 

2. Give the principal epochs in the history of what is 
now tlie United States. 

3. Distinguisli between the Provincial, C^ontinental 
and Federal Congresses. 

4. Give the meaning and origin of each of the follow- 
ing political terms: Loco-focos, Nullification, Free Soilers. 
Know-nothings, Underground Railroad, Secession, South- 
ern Confederacy, Emancipation, Carpet-baggers, Mug- 
wumps. 

5. (a) Who enunciated the doctrine, ''To the victors 
belong the spoils " ? (b) What is meant by "Civil Service 
Reform " ? (c) Under whose administration was the latter 
inaugurated? (d) What is likely to be tlie outcome of it? 

6. What is meant by the " Monroe Doctrine " ? What 
recent occurrence made this question prominent again ? 
Explain. 

7. Write five questions you would ask a class about the 
"Dred Scott Decision." 

8. Give a brief sketch of the first one of each in the 
United States-: (a) Railroad; (b) steamboat; (c) newspaper; 
(d) telegraph; (e) cotton gin. 

9. What do you understand by the " Resumption Act ' 
of 1879; the Sherman Silver Bill repealed by special session 
of Congress in 1898 ? 

10. What do you understand by " the free and unlimit- 
ed coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to I " ? 

ARITHMETIC, 

rSecond or Third Grade CertlticJte.l 

1. (a) Express in words, 605(M)6. (b) Write in figures: 
Eight hundred trillion, eight billion, eight million, eight 
hundred thousand, eighty, (c) Write: Fifty-five thousand 
eight hundred sixteen dollars, five cents, "(d) Express l)y 
Arabic notation: XDCCCXXII. (e) Express one million 
by Roman notation, using one letter. 

2. 4+11 X3- (5+28^4+24) H-6==? 

3. Write all the prime factors of 4862. 

4. A can walk around a race-course in 12 min., B in l.i 
min., and C in 18 min. If they start together and keep 
walking eacli at his own rate, how many minutes will 
elapse before they are all three together at the starting- 
point, and how many times will each have made the cir- 
cuit? 



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5. The pendulum of one clock makes 25 beats In 2S 
seconds, and that of another clock 30 beats in 3-t seconds. 
If the clocks are started at tlie same moment, when first 
after starting will the clocks beat together again ? 

6. What is the exact value of 



j 3+2i-i of %+ i- ( -^n ? 



7. When it is noon at Philadelphia it is 10 min. past 5 
o'clock p. m. at Paris. What is the longitude of Paris, the 
longitude of Philadelphia binng 75° 10' ? : 

8. Find, by using approximate measurement,'' how 
many feet high a box 5 ft. square must be made to hold 100 
bushels of rice. 

9. After getting a note, without interest, discounted at 
a bank for 3 mo. at 6 per cent., I had .$354.42. What was tlie 
face of the note? 

10. A man purchased a horse, giving in payment his 
note at 6 per cent. At tlie end of 3 years and fi mouths he 
found that he owed $42 interest. How much did the iiorse 
cost him? 

ARITHMETIC, 

[First Grade Certificate.! 
L A farmer brought to market 3 jars of butter, weigli- 
ing 27, 29, and 40 pounds respectively. The empty jars 
weighed 4J, 4^, and 1\ pounds. The butter was sold for $28. 
Ciive the jirice per pound in the fraction or a. dollar. 

\ 2- 3^ / 8 

2. Beduce / ^jf-^Ti" ( X~7r+.01 to a decimal. Give 

answer correct to six decimal figures. 

3. Find the value in U. S. money of the contents of a 
purse containing 35 sovereigns, 27 half-sovereigns, 13 
crowns, 41 half-crowns, a guinea, and a shilling. 

4. Express .65 of a pint as a decimal of a bushel. 

5. Fifteen persons agree to purchase a tract of land, 
but three of the company withdrawing, the investment of 
each is increased $150, Wliat does the land cost ? 

6. If the assessed valuation of a town is $2,360,000, and 
the town has 640 polls, paying $1.50 each, what must be the 
rate of taxation in order to raise $10,400? 

7. What is the difference between the present worth 
and proceeds of $500 due in 2 yr. 6 mo., at 6 per cent.? 

8. If 5 horses eat as rriuch as 6 cattle, and 8 horses and 
12 cattle eat 12 tons of hay in 40 days, how much hay will 
he needed to keep 7 horses and 15 cattle 65 days ? 

9- If a globe of gold 1 inch in diameter is worth $120, 
what i^ the diameter of a globe of gold worth $6400? 



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10. If a child should receive 1 cent at birth, 2 cents on 
the second birthday, 4 cents on the tliiz'd, etc., how niiicli 
would lie be wortii when 21 years of age ? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) Distinguish between practical and technical 
grainniar. (b) Tell which should be taught first, and give 
reasons for your answer, 

2. Separate tlie following into all of its propositions, 
clauses and phrases, classify, and tell what each modifies: 

"Nobody knew how the fisher)aan brown. 
With a look of despair that was half a. frown, 
Faced iiis fate on tliat furious night. 
Faced the mad billows with hunger white. 
Just within hail of a beacon light 
That shone on a woman fail- and trim 
Waiting for him." 
;5. Parse in full in tlie above sentence: How, tliat 

(wherever it appears), with (both), faced (second), half. 

knew, just, 

4. Write each part of speech and after it as a head, in 
the order of stating them in parsing, all the properties and 
accidents to whicli each is subject. 

5. (a) Only what kind of verbs may have a passive 
voice, and why? (b) How is the passive voice of every 
verb formed ? 

6. Writeasliort sentence and illustrate- each of the 
following uses of the infinitive: (1) As the subject of a sen- 
tence; (2) as the object of a verb; (8) as the object of a 
preposition; (4) as rhe complement of a ver)>; (5) as a noun 
appositive; (6) as an adjective; (7) as an adverb. 

7. Write a short sentence in which a noun clause is 
used: (1) As the subject of a sentence; (2) as the object of 
a verb; (8) as the object of a preposition; (4) as a comple- 
ment of the verb be; (5) as an appositive. 

8. Write two sentences and illustrate the difference be- 
Iween restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. 

9. (a) Give four classifications of sentences, (b) What 
determines the classification of words, phrases and clauses ? 

10. (a) Which two parts of speech, besides coiijunc- 
tions, may connect; and what is each of them called ?' (b) 
Illustrate each hy a sentence. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

f l-Mr.st Gi'ade Certiticate. 1 

1. (a) What does English Grammar teach? (b) How 
should pupils be taught the subject for two or three years 
preparatory to taking up technical grammar? 



Florida Uiiifonn Exainhwlion Questiotif. June, iSgS. 7'.) 

2, In beginning grannnar, nhould the sentence and its 
elements, oi' the parts of speech and their proi)erties and 
accidents, be taught tii'st? "Why ? 

8. (a) Name and define tlie different I^inds of sentences, 
(b) Write a declarative sentence and change it into each of 
the other kinds. 

4. (a) Define intlc^ction, (b) When is it called declen- 
sion; when compaj'ison ; when conjugation? 

5. Decline: J, tli(>u, thyself, which, man-of-war. 

6. Give the rule and compare each of the following: 
Hot, clieerfnl, sincere, able, capable, angry, fore, well, 
worldly, much. 

7. Copy the following, and write opposite each its 
plural: Arhiy, turkey, tax, thief, brief, *, solo, son-in- 
law, forget-nie-not. Knight-templar. 

8. Write the synopsis with ///c// of the verb r///rv in tlie 
passive in all moods and tenses, and give all forms of the 
infinitive and i)articiples. 

9. Make a list of all the propositions, clauses and 
phrases, stating what each modifies and the kind of ele- 
iiient it is, in the foDowing sentence: 

"We can not perceive that tlie study of grammai- 
makes even the sniallest difference in tlie speech of people 
who have always lived in good society." 

10. Pai'se in full the italicized words in the following 
sentences: 

( 1 ) nVu'c/TYr studies u'/// A-iini. 

{2)J'-7'<'r^' good gift is from <r/'t>7Y. 

0^) He IS <i// ixwry, for his reputation is his <///. 

(4) Be not ///Jv i/z/w/;, ch'iven cattle. 

f.o) '/'//tr/i whom, Satan except(^d. «"//<- liighci- sat, 

GEOGFAPHY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade (iertitjeate, 1 

1. Of what use are parallels of latitude and nieridians? 

2. What cities in tlie United States are in about the 
same latitude as Madrid ? 

8. (a) Give approximately tlieir number, their com- 
bined area and the population of the Phillipine Islands. 
(1)) Give the latitude and longitude of Manila. 

4. (a) What are zones? (b) Give the width of each in 
niiles. 

5. Name ten important rivers of the Mississippi rivoi' 
system. 

6. Name in order tiie five nations tliat have tlie largest 
population. 

7. What is tiie distance, and through what watej> 
would you sail from (libraltar to Manila? 



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8. Give the following in regard to Cuba: Length, aver- 
age width, area in square miles, climate, character of soil, 
chief products, number of inhabitants and their character, 
chief exports and imports. 

9. Locate Mexico. How many states compose the re- 
public? What is its area? What is the character and 
number of its poiDulation ? What are its chief exports and 
imi^orts ? 

10. Name all the governments in South America with 
their capitals. State approximately their combined popu- 
lation. What countries have furnished the greater part of 
the South American population ? What language is princi- 
pally spoken in each government ? 

COMPOSITION. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. What advantage to composition are written recita- 
tions? Should they be more frequent, more carefully cor- 
rected, and copied? 

2. What of the nature of the subjects, and at what 
period in a child's education should composition work be- 
gin ? 

3. Elaborate upon the benefits of the fV>llowing as in- 
troductory to composition: (I) Conversation lessons; (2) 
copying exercises; (iJ) oral and written descriptions of pict- 
ure.s and familiar objects; (4) committing choice extracts. 

4. A knowledge of the following being indispensable 
in composition, when and how should their use be taught: 
(1) Capital letters; (2) punctuation ; (8) use of Avords; (4) 
use of sentences; (oj figures of speech ? 

5. Name briefly ten instances when words should be- 
gin with capitals. 

6. (a) Name all the marks of punctuation in general 
use. (b) Write five rules for the use of the comma. 

7. Write ten cautions to be observed in the selection of 
words. 

8. Give five general rules to be observed in the con- 
struction of sentences. 

9. Name and illustrate the use of five of the figures of 
speech in most common use. 

10. (a) What is the value of paragraphing? (b) Give 
some rules for paragraphing. 

11. After preparing an outline, write a composition, at 
least one foolscap page in length, on one of the following- 
subjects: 

(1) The Use and Abuse of School Examinations. 

(2) Teachers' Uniform Examinations. 
(8) The War with Spain. 

(4) The Necessity of Ripe Scholarship in a 
Teacher. 



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PHYSIOLOGY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate. | 

1. Describe all the bones of tlie trunk. 

2. (iive the pliysiolosical reasons Avhy a chikl's feet 
should not be allowed to (hingle from a hisi:h"seat. 

3. Explain the uses and structure of the muscles. 

4. Describe and state the uses of tlie perspiratory 
glands. 

5. Name the organs of respiration and tell how we 
breathe. 

6. Give reasons for schoolroom ventilation, and tell 
how it may best be done. 

7. Describe the heart and explain its movements. 

8. Tell tlie effects of alcoholi'c drinks and narcotics 
upon circulation; the heart; the blood; the lungs. 

9. Trace the food from the mouth to the small intes- 
tines and describe the whole process of digestion, explain- 
ing the action of the gastric and i)ancreatic juices and the 
bile. 

10. Explain tlie effects of alcoholics and narcotics up- 
on the organs and process of digestion; and give the '• Law 
of Heredity." 

THEORY AND PRACTICE, 
(From Hughes' Mistaltes in Teachinsr.) 
[First, .Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Discuss the following mistakes: (1) Regarding 
knowledge as more important than the child; (2) of confin- 
ing education to the school; (3) of neglecting definite 
moral training. Chap. I. 

2. Give a brief of the arguments on the following 
questions of school management: (1) Yard supervision; (2) 
demerit marks; (3) tardiness in the teacher; (4) personal 
habits of the teacher; (5) sitting while teaching. Chap. II. 

3. Give in substance the discussion on five mistakes of 
the teacher in dealing with parents. Chap, II. 

4. Discuss the following mistakes in discipline: (1) 
Trying to teach without order. (2) State five rules given 
for " maintaining order." Chap. III. 

5. What is said in relation to the following: (1) Too 
many rules. (2) Losing sight of the class; (3) Whipping 
for disciplinary purposes merely. (4) Allowing whispering 
on the plea of •' allowing pupils to assist each other." (5) 
A hearty laugh in the schoolroom. Chap. III. 

6. Discuss the following mistakes in method: (1) Ask- 
ing questions in rotation; (2) repeating questions; (3) slav- 
ish use of text-books; (4) assigning lessons without testing 
thereon; (5) continuing le.ssons too long. Chap. IV, 

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7. State in brief the argument of Mr. Hughes on the 
following: (1) Thinking one teaching of a subject suffi- 
cient; (2) Supposing detecting errors means correcting 
them. Chap. IV. 

8. What is said of the following: (1) Trying to teach 
too much in a single lesson; (2) paying most attention to 
smart pupils; (3) accepting partial answers; (4) reijeating 
answers ? Chap. IV. 

9. (1) Write what is said of talking too much while 
teaching. (2) Quote the ''teacher's golden rule," and the 
sayings of Mr. Hughes, Sir William Hamilton, and Horace 
Mann, relative to the same principle. L hap. IV. 

10. Reproduce the substance of the arguments in dis- 
cussing the following mistakes: (1) Allowing "•Yes" and 
'' No," and neglecting the manners and deportment of pu- 
pils; (2) tempting pupils by the self -reporting system. 

CIVIL GCVERNMENT- 

[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. (1) What State took the first step leading to the 
formation of the present Constitution of the United States? 
(2) Name the time and place fixed by the commissioners 
tor the meeting of the first convention. (3) Why did the 
attempt fail? (4) When and where did the convention 
finally meet? (5) State why organization was delayed, 
who was elected president, and the length of the session. 

2. (1) Tlie ratification of how many States was neces- 
sary to adopt the Constitution? (2) How many ratified 
within a year? (3) When was tlae first election held under 
ir ? (4) What prevented Congress from organizing and the 
President from being inaugurated at the date fixed, March 
4th, 1789? (5) When and where was he finally inaugu- 
rated ? 

3. (1) Give the six reasons set forth in the preamble 
for tlie establishment of the Constitution. (2) How many 
articles in the original instrument? (3) How many since 
added by amendment? (4) How many amendments were 
proposed by the first Congress ? (5) Which thre,e were of- 
fered and declared ratified to free and to adjust the negro 
to citizenship ? 

4. (1) Name the branches of government established 
by the Constitution. (2) Show wliei'ein tliese branches are 
not entirely independent of eacli other. (3) Name the two 
bodies created constituting the first branch of government. 
(4) W^hat are botli together called ? (5j How often is this 
])ody required to meet ? 

b. (1) Why is the House of Representatives so called ? 
(2) State three conditions of eligibilitj' therein. (3) Give 
the number of members in the first Congress. (4) Wlien 
was the first census taken ? (5) What was approximately 



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the pojjulation of the United States, and -svhat was the 
primary object of this census? 

6. (1) Give approximately the population of the Elev- 
enth census; the number of members in the present House. 

(2) What population was made the basis of the apportion- 
ment of Representatives after the First census? what after 
the Eleventh? (3) Can a non-resident of a Congressional 
district be elected and serve it in Congress? (4) What 
three exclusive powers are granted the House of Repre- 
sentatives ? (5) How many times has the House of Repre- 
sentatives elected a President, and under what circum- 
stances may a State have no voice in such election ? 

7. ( 1 ) How many members now compose the United 
States Senate? (2) Wlio are eligible; how are they elected, 
and how did it happen that the Constitution did not require 
their election by popular vote? (3) Who is its presiding 
officer; wlien must the Chief Justice preside? (4) What 
executive and what judicial functions performed by this 
body? (5) Under what circumstances may a State lose its 
vote in the election of a Vice-President ? 

8. (1) Why is it that State Legislatures frequently in- 
struct their Senators and request their Representatives to 
support certain national measures? (2) How long must a 
foreigner live in this country before eligible lo the Senate? 

(3) What is the salary of a Senator; a Representative? 

(4) What are the salarfes of Vice-President and Speaker of 
the House? (5) Under what conditions may a Governor ap- 
point a Senator? 

9. Give three processes by which a bill may become a 
national law. 

10. (1) Show the points of agreement, and how State 
governments are all built on the plan of the general gov- 
ernment. (2) Mention the executive officers of a Stiite, and 
the primary duties of each. 

ALGEBRA, 

[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. (1) Define algebra. (2) Express the multiplication of 
a, b, and c, in three ways, (3) Express the division of a by 
b in two ways. (4) Write x with a numerical coefficient; 
with a literal coefficient; with a literal exponent. (5) Ex- 
press the fourth root of x=*; the reciprocal of a+b. 

2, Express by algebraic symbols: (1) x equals the sum 
of a and b; (2) x is less than the sum of a and b; (3) x is 
greater than the sum of a and b; (4) x is not equal to y; 
(6) X is not greater than y ; (6) x is not less than y ; (7) make 
the sign of deduction (meaning therefore), the sign of con- 
tinuation (meaning and so on); (8) name the four signs of 
aggregation; (9) in the trinomial 2a "^—b^+Sc, tell the sign 



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of 2a2, the coefficient of b^, and the exponent of 8c; (10) 
give three rules embodying your answers to sub-question 

3. (1) Add: (a), 2a+(+a); (b), 2a4-(-a); (c), -2a+{-|- 
a); (d), -2a+(-a). 

(2) Subtract: (a),2a-(4-a); (b),2a— (— a); (c), -2a— 
(+a); (d),— 2a— (— a). 

(3) Multiply: (a), ax (+b); (b),— aX(+b); (c),aX(— b); 
(d),— ax(— b). 

(4) Divide: (a), abH-(-(-a) ; (b),— ab-^( — a); (c), — ab-^ 
(+a); (d), ab-^(— a). 

(5) Explain all the algebraic nieaning.s of the signs plus 
and minus. 

4. Resolve each of the following into four factors: (1) 
l-m«; (2) x-«-|-7x3+9x2-7x-10. 

5. Find each the G. C, D. and the L. C;. M. of 6x-'-18x 
-1-6, 2X2-I-OX— 12, and 6x2-x-12. 

6. Reduce to its simplest form : 

\ m _ n / s n^ I . n / 
f m— n m — n ^ ~ ' m-fn m — n ^ 

14 I 7 _., 21 B _, 

7. Solve the equations — — i" -;; — ^31 — — ~— ; — » 

H. A and B together earn $50 in 8 days; A and C to- 
gether, $69 in 12 days; B and C together, $55 in 10 days. 
How much can each eHrn in a day ? 

9. Find the value of x in : 

1.1 X 



x-t-v2-x'^ x-v'2-x2 ^ 
10. A certain number of sheep were bought for $468; but, 
after 8 of them had been reserved, the rest were sold at an 
advance of $1 a head, and $12 were gained on the lot. How 
many sheep were bought? 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

r First Grade Certificate.! 

]. (1) Distinguish between Mathematical, Political, 
and Physical Geography. (2) Name six other sciences 
closely akin to and partly treated in Physical Geography. 

2.' Give the following in regard to the earth: (l/lts 
form; (2) its polar and mean equatorial diameters; (8) its 
surface in square miles, and volume in cubic miles; (4) its 
relative cubical contents and mass as compared with the 
sun; (5) the source from which its losing heat is largely re- 
stored. 

3. Define: (1) Agonic line; (2) isogonic lines; (8) iso- 
clinical lines; (4) magnetic storms; (5) Mercator's Projec- 
tion. 



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4. (1) What is relief? (2KTive the total relief of the 
earth in miles, and the proportion between that and the 
earth's radius. (3) Tell the effects of erosion. (4) Undei- 
what eirt'unistances might there be no land? (5) C'lassily 
islands. 

5. (1) Describe the coral polyp, and coi'al reef building-, 
(2) Give the theory of atolls. 

6. (I) Define seismology. (2) (Tive the modern theory 
of earthquakes, and tlieir effects at sea> 

7- (1) Explain tlie nature of waves, liow produced, 
jnoveinent, extreme height aiul velocity, duration, depth of 
disturbance, etc. (2) f'xplain the phenomena of tides: 
solar, lunar, spring nwA neai) tides; height at differeni 
places; bores and tlie niaelstron). 

8. (U Define climate, and state the chief conditions 
which determine the climate of a place. ^2) Tell how 
winds are produced; give the starting place (^f cyclones, 
and draw the distinction between cyclones and tornadoes, 

9. (1) Define vapor, and tell how water is held in the 
air. (2) Explain what is meant by the "• dew point," and 
state the conditions and in what forms vapor is precipi- 
tated. 

10. <U Tell what is n)eanit by the flora of a country, 
iind tell the conditions which effect flora> (2J Explain what 
is meant by the fauna of a country-, suid name son>e ot tl)i' 
animals common to the several faunal regions. 



SEPTEMBER. 1898. 

OJRTHOGRAPHY. 

fKirsl. Second or Tbird Grade Cenitjcaite.i 

1- <1 ) Define a word. <2) Oive four (cla.ssitieationr; of 
words according to the number of syllables. (8) Define ac- 
<'ent- /4) What is a tr^graph ? (5) Which is the ante- 
penult ? 

2. Sei)arate the i^i'eflx and the root in each of the fol- 
.lowing, and write after each prefix its jiieaninjg: Abed, 
^ifternoon^ belittle, mixisummer, mi.sname, withstand, 
.unkind, outstrip, disobey, f/jresight. 

3, Give one word accented on each of the following 
;syllables: O) t'ltimate; < 2.) penultimate; <3) antepennlti- 
jnate; (4,) preantepeuultimate. 

4, Give fiA'e pairs of each: (1) Homonyms; (2^ syno- 
nyms. 

5. Join to root words affixes meaning: Little, state. 
imany, one who, wrong, back, continuing, f.o jmilie. 
above, bevojid. 



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6. Form a derivative by using each of the following •< s 
a prefix or suffix, and define each word formed: Ship, dis. 
ess, post, hood, able, hyper, ty, ism, circum. 

7. (1) Give the three principal rules for spelling, and 
Illustrate each by an example. (2) Give an exception to 
each rule. 

8. Syllabicate and mark diacritically the vowel in the 
accented' syllable in each of the following wordp : Almond, 
opponent, despicable, combatant, juvenile, obligatory, 
interloper, protocol, onerous, patron. 

9-10. Spell correctly the following words: Kar-i-l<ar- 
tur, vas-i-lage, suc-u-lent, in-ter-stis, re-sus-i-tate, sin- 
o-shur, sar-jent, tyr-a-nize, priv-i-lej, sin-til-late. 

READING. 

[Pirst, Second or Third Grade Certificate. "{ 

1. (1 ) Name the chief end to be attained in teaching 
Reading. (2) Wliat close relation exists between tlie abili- 
ty to read well and other lines of study ? 

2. (1) Discuss tlie statement: " Keading is an act of 
the mind and not an act of the lips only." (2) When may 
children begin to get thought from reading ? 

3. State your plans: (1) For improving the poor readers 
among the older pupils; (2) for preventing -'sing-song" in 
reading poetry. 

4. (1) Of what importance is "reading aloud"? (2) 
Express your views on the plan of having pupils to *-' stand 
and read," as soon as the class is called, without tlie teach- 
er's attempting tlie "construction of a picture" in the 
minds of the class before their reading of the lesson. 

5. (1) Distinguish between the 'iword method" and 
the " sentence method." (2) What method, in your judn- 
ment, is best adapted to render the child most self-helping? 

■ 6. (1) Which comes first, " tlie getting of the thought" 
or "- the expression of it." What do you think of the state- 
ment, "The expression of the thought is a secondary mat- 
ter; if the thought is fully comprehended, the oral expres- 
sion of it is compai-atively easy"? (2) Does the habit of 
quickly pronouncing- all difficult words for the pupils, be- 
cause "it takes less time, save time in the end; and does 
such teaching produce self-helping and fluent readers ? 

7-H. Read for the examiner a paragraph of prose. 

9-10. Read for the examiner, he selecting the piece. 
<,tne ov more stansias of poetry. 



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UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

[Second or Third Grade Certiticatcl 

1. (1) Name five nations that claim to have discovered 
North America. <2) Which do you think desei'Ves the 
credit ? 

2. (1) Name the thirteen original colonies. (2) Con- 
nect each colony with tJie religious sect that was prominent 
in its settlement. 

8. (1) Tell what you know of the following-; U) Ba- 
con's Rebellion; (2) introduction of slaves; (8) invention 
of the cotton gin; (4) Monroe doctrine; (5) Carpet-baggers, 

4. Describe the following battles: (1), Yorktown; (2) 
(Jettysburg. 

5. Tell what you know of the following: Blue laws; 
Minute-men; Loco-focos; Henry letters; Abolitionists. 

6. (1) Discuss the expulsion of the Acadians. (2) 
Wliat poem has been written upon this subject, and by 
wliom ? 

7. Enumerate the causes and events that led to the 
war of 1«12. 

8. Discuss Andrew Jackson in the following particu- 
lars: (1) HLs personal character; /2) military achieve- 
ments; (8) relations to national banks; j(4) his political op- 
ponents; (5) nullification. 

9. Name in order the Presidents of the United States 
since Abraham Lincoln. 

10. Who is each of the following, and for what noted; 
I'ervera; Blanco; Hobson; >Shafter; Schley? 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

[First Grade CertiBcate.] 
1- What part of North America did 'Spain, Frani'*-. 
Kngland and Holland each claim, and upon what discover- 
ies was each claim bailed? 

2. Discuss briefly each of the following; (U I'nion of 
IH48; (2) House of Burgesses; ^S) Constitutional Conven- 
tion; (4) Court of Alabama Claims; (.5) Electoral Commis- 
sion. 

3. Tell why each of the following is noted: Miles Stan- 
dish, Oglethorpe, Oliver Hazard Perry, John Jay, Genet. 
Ixeorge Stephenson, Rali)li Waldo EmeiMon, Fremont, Hor- 
ace Mann, Camlx)n. 

4. Tell what you know of the following: X. Y. Z. 
Dispatches; Charter Oak; Ashburton Tre/ity; Trent Af- 
fair; Squatter Sovereign ty- 

5. Discuss briefly the origin, leaders and doctrines of 
the following political parties: Federalist; Whig; Repub- 
Jiran; Democratic; Populist. 



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H. From whom, how, and wlieii did the United States 
obtain the following- territory: Louisiana, Florida, Alaska. 
Hawaii, Puerto Rico ? 

7. Give some of the principal events in the administra- 
tions of the following" Presidents: Thomas Jefferson, James 
Madison, Andrew Jackson, Jam.es K. Polk, Grover Cleve- 
land. 

8. Mention one literary production of each of the fol- 
lowing: Irving, Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Ban- 
croft, Edwin L. Green. 

9. When did each of the following battles occur, and 
what was the result of each: Yorktown, New Orleans; 
Buena Vista, Gettysburg, Manila ? 

11). Give the expressed and real causes of ttie re- 
cent war. What do you know of Cervera ? Aguinaldo ? 
President Dole? Garcia? 

AEITHMETIC. 

fSecond or Third Grade Certitic<»te.^ 

1. The minuend is 296; the subtrahend exceeds the re- 
enainder by 182. Find the subtrahend and remainder. 

2. Express in Roman notation the result of 2.8X.25-4- 
W()85-f-5)+21o()X.06. 

8. The sum of two numbei-s is 6-=rf-; one of tbem is tht- 

49,», 22 J 

ditlerence between — j-j — and —^. Find tlie other number. 

4. Find the quotient of the L. C. M. of 815, 1850, and 
1500, divided by their G. (". D. 

5. Find, by using the approximate rule, the length of a 
bin, whose width and depth are each 5 feet, to hold ISO 
bushels of grain. 

6. New York is 7-1° west longitude, and Paris 2° dO" 
east longitude. If a telegram is sent from New York at 5 
o'clock p. in., to Paris, at what time will it arrive, allowing- 
15 minutes loss in transit? 

7. Sold two houses for $1,000 each, lost 10% on one and 
gained 10% on the other. What was the gain or loss pei- 
cent, on the transaction ? 

8. If 12 men can build a wall 30 ft. long, 6 ft. high, 8 ft. 
thick in fifteen days, by working 12 hours per dav, in what 
time will 60 men build a wall 800 ft. long, 8 ft. high, and 6. 
ft. thick, working only 8 hours per day ? 

9. In a partnership, A puts in $1200 far 8. months; B. 
$900 for 10 months; C $850 for 12 months. They gain $1296. 
Find each partner's share of the gain. 

10. What would it cost in U. S. money to plaster the- 
twelve columns of the Florida State Capitol, at a franc per 
sq. yd., each culuixm beuig 80 ft. high and 8i ft.in diameter. 



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ARITHMETIC, 

fFirst Grade Certificate.] 

1. (2H^X7T2l-li^2^)H- ) ^-^h ! = ? 

2. If J of 8 acres of land cost $53^, what will four times 
.fi3 of an acre cost ? 

3. Divide (124X10+-1 of .Ol+.OOl of 10) by twelve hun- 
dred forty and six thousand nine hundred eighty-five ten- 
thousandths less IJ. 

4. (a) By selling a hat for 66 cents I lose 34%, What 
did the hat cost? (b) The interest of $12,480 for 3 yr. and 1 
nio. was $384.80. What was the rate per cent ? 

5. If a globe of gold 'i\ inches in diameter be worth 
$5,145, what will be the diameter of a globe worth $120? 

6. Bought a bill of exchange on Paris for 24^? francs, 
at 5.20, h% brokerage. What did it cost in U. S. money? 

7. BoHght a quantity of cloth for $750, J of which be- 
ing injured I had to sell at $1.25 a yard, and lost thereby 
$100. What must I sell the remainder per yard to gain h\%% 
on the whole ? 

8. If a ten-cent loaf of bread weighs 1\ ounces when 
wheat is worth $1 ^ a bushel, what ought a five-cent loaf to 
weigh when wheat is worth 82| cents a bushel ? 

9. If a ball be shot from a gun with a force that carries 
it one mile the first second, J of a mile the next, and so on 
in the increasing ratio of % till spent, what number of miles 
would the ball go ? 

10. What would be the exact cost of the silk necessary 
to make, and of the gas to inflate, a balloon 25 ft. in diame- 
ter, no loss allowed for seams, if the silk be worth $1 J a sq. 
yd. and the gas P*>Mh ^ hundred cubic feet? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. (1) What is a sentence ? (2) Name and illustrate the 
two essential parts of a sentence. 

2. (1) Distinguish between a phrase and a clause. (2) 
Construct a sentence and underscore a phrase and a clause. 

3. (1) Define all the parts oi speech. (2) State which 
have inflection and what the inflection of each is called. 

4. Decline: I, thou, you, ox, mother-in-law. 

5. Arrange, in parallel columns, the masculines in one 
and the corresponding feminines in the other, the following 
words: Earl, Francis, czar, Jesse, monk, peacock, Paul, 
she-bear, tiger, widow. 

6. (1) Make an outline of the adjective showing all the 
classes and sub-classes. (2) Name all the adjectives having 
singular and plural forms, and tell to which class each be- 
longs. 

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7. (1) Distinguish between transitive and intransitive 
verbs. (2) Tell how the passive voice is always fornied, and 
what class of verbs may have a passive voice. 

8. (1) Write the synopsis of the verb take with he in thf 
progressive form through the indicative mood. (2) The 
synopsis of tlie verb see with thou througii all moo(is and 
tenses of the passive voice. 

9. In the following quotation n«nie: (1 ) Tlie subject; 
(2) all the clauses; stating what each modifies and what 
kind of clause it is : 

" Next to the illusion that money can confer liap- 
piness, is the illusion that tiie giving of 
inoney is the only form that practical help- 
fulness can take." 

10. Parse in full these words from the above quotation : 
Next, illusion (first), that (first), confer, illusion (second), 
giving, only, that (last), practical, take. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

[First Grade Certiticate.l 

1. Give an example of each of four kinds of sentences: 
(I) When classified as to meaning; (2) When classified as 
to form. 

2. Write in parallel columns the possessive, singular 
and plural of eachof the following words: Tliou, geese, it, 
deer, mice, negro, tyro, staff, son-in-law, Knight- 
templar. 

3. Distinguish between the use of: My, thy, your, 
and mine, thine, yours. 

4. (1) Define an appositive. (2) When one of two or 
more appositives is in the possessive form, what of tlie 
others? (8) Construct a sentence and illustrate the latter. 

5. Distinguish between the uses of ^^?//and will\ (l ) In 
declarative sentences; (2) in denoting determination; (;}) 
in asking questions. 

6. (1) Tell how imperfect (present), perfect and com- 
pound participles are formed. (2) Distinguish between 
verbal adjectives and verbal nouns in ing. (,S) Give the 
verbal nouns formed from any verb, and illustrate that they 
are grammatical "equivalents. (4) Name and write tlie five 
forms of the verb rise, the four of tlie verb talk, and explain 
which verbs have five forms and which four. (.5) What is 
an attributive verb? Use one in a sentence and change il 
into its equivalent copulative verb and attribute. 

7. (1) Give the synopsis with thou of the verl) take in the 
progressive form of the indicative mood. (2) The synopsis 
with he of the verb .ff^' through all moods and tenses' of the 
passive voice. 

8. (1) Illustrate seven uses of the infinitive phrase, fiv»- 
when a noun, one when au adjective, one when an adverb. 



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(2) Construct st'iitenees and illustrate five uses of noun 
clauses. 

9, In the f<»llo\ving (juotation write: (1) All the main 
propositions; (2) all the subordinate clauses; tell what 
kind each is, and what it modifies; (8) all the plirases, tell 
what each modifies and its kind: 

" I see, in tlie world, two heaps — one of human 
happiness, and one of misery; now, if 1 can 
take but the smallest bit from the second 
heap and add it to the first, I carry a point. 
If, as I go home, a child has dropped a half 
penny, and, by giving it another, 1 can wipe 
jiway its tears, I feel that I have done some- 
thing." 
!(►. Parse in full the following words in the above quo- 
tation : Heaps, one, now, but, first, as, add, home, giving, 
its. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

[First. Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (a) Name all the zones and give the boundaries of 
each, (b) Give tlie width of eacli in common miles. 

2. State tile nanie of the line which marks the highest 
northern limit on wliidi the rays of the sun are ever verti- 
ral, and give tlie date on which the sun reache.'' this limit. 

3. (a) Name the countries of South America, (b) 
Name their capitals, (c) Tell what form of government 
nach is. 

4. Starting from Pittsburg, Pa., and traveling entirely 
by water, on what waters would you sail in order to reacfi 
St. Petersburg, Russia. 

5. Name five of the chief industries of the following 
sections of the United States: New England States; South 
Atlantic States; North Central States; Rocky Mountain 
.States; Gulf States. 

6. (a) Sliow tlie relation between the physical and po- 
litical condition of a country, (b) Show how the physical 
features determine tlie industries, commerce and routes of 
trade. 

7. (a) What is the nearest distance in statute miles be- 
tween two places on the equator situated re.spectively in 
longitude 137° E, and longitude 175° W? (b) When it is 
Thursday noon at the former, what is the day and hour at 
the latter? 

8. Name the provinces of Canada and the chief indus- 
tries of each. 

9. Draw an oiuline map of Florida, locating six of its 
largest cities, and three of its largest rivers. 

10. Draw a township, number its sections, sub-divide 
its 20th section into quarter-quarters, and its SEJ of the 



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NEJ into quarter-quarter-quarter.s, and make a cross in thn 

SEJ of SEJ of NEi. 

COMPOSITION. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate. J 

1. (1) State the purpose of composition work; (2) its 
relations to the other studies in the language group. 

2. (1) In preparing a school program, how much tinte 
should be allowed for composition ? (2) Discuss the value 
of a little daily practice in composition as comiDared with 
longer and less frequent practice. 

3. (1) Give a remedy for the common error of requir- 
ing pupils to express their thoughts when they have none 
to express. (2) What must always precede expression and 
good, clear writing? 

4. (1) State the sources from which pupils must get 
their materials for composition. (2) Show how a teacher 
may assist the different grades to correct use of language 
and to facile expression of thought. 

5. (1) Define redundancy and tautology; correct and 
tell which exists in each of the following: (a) "Every man 
on the face of the earth has duties to perform." (b) "Tlie 
effects and consequences of such corruption and degenera- 
cy are deplorable and lamentable." (2) Illustrate how a 
quotation within a quotation should be written. (3) Name 
the figures of speecn in each of the following: (a) "Thn 
waves to sleep had gone." (b) "She has seen sixteen sum- 
mers," (c) "Fame is a plant that grows on soil immortal." 
(d) "Life is like an isthmus between two eternities." (e) 
"The coat was a mile too large for him." (4) State the 
thi'ee essentials of good diction. (6) Discuss the necessity 
of paragraphing. 

6. Why is an outline important ? 

7-10. Prepare an outline and write a composition, at 
least one foolscap page in lengtli, on one ot the following 
subjects: 

(1) Language W^ork in the Common School 

Course. 

(2) My First Teachers' Institute. 

(3) Modei'n Implements of War. 

(4) State Uniformity of Text-Books. 

(5) Physical Education, 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Name: (1) The systems of the body; (2) the tissues. 

2. Name all the bones of the head. 

8. (1) Into what three kinds may all foods be cla.ssi- 
fied ? (2) Name three examples of each kind. 



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4. (4) Name the juices used iu digestion. (2) Tell 
where each is secreted, and its eltect on food. 

5. Describe the process of inspiration and expiration. 

6. Name the parts of a tooth and the substances of . 
which it is comi:)osed. 

7. Describe each of the following processes: Transfu- 
.sion; trei)anning; grafting; peristalsis. 

8. (1) What composes the nervous system? (2) What 
are motory, sensory, vaso-motor, syujpathetic and cranial 
nerves? 

9. Locate and define the following*: Lacunae; fascije; 
cochlea; meninges; masseter. 

10. Describe in full the organs of speech. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE 

(Krom Mrowning's Kdacational Theories ) 
[First. Second or Third Grade Certificate. 1 

1. J n what two ways may the history of Kducati<»nal 
Theories be of practical use to teachers? Preface. 

2. (1) Name the subjects taught by the Greeks, and 
state their reasons for attaching great importance to ath- 
letics and music. (2) Discuss briefly Plato's plan, and show 
wherein ArLstotle differs from him and is more practical, 
<'hap. J. 

3. (1) Distinguish between the Oreek and Roman 
ideals. (2) Name the first Romati writer on education. (Hj 
State briefly Cicero's theory, and give the culminating idea 
with him of all education. (4) Give Quintilian's reasons 
for favoring public schools, and his ideas as to corpox'al 
punishment, the qualifications and duties of teachers. 
I'hap. II. 

4. <1) State the changes produced by the introduction 
of Christian education under the P'atliers; give the design 
of Chai-les the Great; distinguish between trivium and 
<iuadrivium in the scliools of the monasteries and the cas- 
tles; discuss the discipline in the schools of the period, 
(2) Tell who first conceived the idea of a really universal 
education; and write of John Sturm, liis system of educa- 
tion, and its influence. Chap. III. 

5. Write a sketch of the life, the ideas, the rules of ed- 
ucation, the practical suggestions, the class methods, the 
kinds of schools, and the wondrrfu) reforms of Comenius, 
Chap. IV. 

fi. (1) Name the second great vindicator of naturalistic 
education. (2) Give some of the precepts of his essays; 
his object of education; his description of what the teacher 
sjjould be; his four recommendations, ('bap. V, 



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7. Ciive an outline of Rousseairs " Eniile," and tell its 
effects upon the educational systems of the times. (2) 
Name the companion work by the same author, and give 
some of tlie ideas advanced therein relative to tiie educa- 
tion of women. Chap. IX. 

8. (1) Who wrote "Leonard and Gertrude"? (2) 
Write a brief sketch illustrating the principles, methods, 
means of instruction, and influence of its author. Chap. X 

9. Tell wlio Fichte and Herbart were, and write briefly 
of the work, the theories, and the influence of each upon 
education. Chap. XI. 

10. Write of the American Common Scliool: Original 
concejition ; the effect of Pestalozzi's theories; the influ- 
ence of Frcebel's teaching: the work of Horace Mam.; the 
schools of today. Chap. XIV. 

aVIL GOVERNMENT. 

[First Grade Certittcate.l 

1. (l)Name the three departments of government. 
(2) Give an outline of the scope of each. (8) Show how 
each acts as a check upon the others. 

2. What is a bill of rights, and name the rights guar- 
anteed by the Constitution. 

8. Enumerate ten powers delegated by the Constitu- 
tion to Congress. 

4. Define the following: Liocal option ; lobt)ying; high 
seas; ex post facto law; letters of marque and reprisal. 

5. (1 ) State the Consfitutioual provision."* for the elec- 
tion of a President. (2) Show whertin the present method 
differs from that originally prescribed. 

6. (l)Name the members of President McKinley's 
Cabinet and tlie office held by eacli. (2) What departments 
only were represented in Washington's Cabinet? 

7. Mention five points in which the Articles of Con- 
federation differed from the Constitution. 

.8. State the difference between the following: Excises 
and duties; direct and indirect taxes; Joint and Executive 
sessions; reprieves and pardons. 

9. (1) Who are citizens of the United States? (2) Whn 
is an alien, and how may aliens become naturalized ? 

10. (Iji Who constitute State Board of Education ? (2) 
State the sources of the State, County and Sub-District 
school funds. (8) Who only has the authority to appoint 
and contract with teachers? «4) Name five chief dutias of 
a County School Board. (5) Name five principal duties 
each ol' a Caimty Superintendent and of a teacher. 



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ALGEBRA. 

n-'rom White's School Aliiebra, i 

f First Grade Certitlcate.l 

1. Write and illustrate the metininy of each of the fol- 
lowing: Factors; algebraic equation; literal co-efficient; 
numerical exponent; reciprocal of a quantity; ratlical sign 
and index; sign of inequality; sign of deduction; sign of 
continuation; signs of aggregation (five). 

2. (\) Define an algebraic term. (2) Explain the signs 
+ and— , and X and -^, in relation to terms. (;{) How 
many terms in a'bx-l-j-2a ? (4) Write one of eHch; Mon- 
omial, binomial, trinomial, polynomial, (o) Define and 
illustrate similar term,s. 

8. Let a=r>, b=2, c=8, and d = l, and tlien find tlie nu- 
merical value of (a-J-2b-)-c) (a ^ — 2abd ) -^ ,/ 8l)''c — ( a'-'^- b ) . 

4. Divide ix«+/^xy*'+,'^y=' by ^x'— Jxy-f Jy^ 

5. Resolve eacli of tlie following into four factors: (I), 
X"— y8; (2;.m«— n«; (;8), a"— 10a-'-|-9; (4). Slx^^72x- v'^+lfi 
y'; (.■>), x''—2x=' — 16x-'-[-2x+ir). 

6. Reduce to its simplest form: 

^ l_l_ ^~^^ ( ^ S j_a — 1> / 
* a-f b S ' 'I a-fb * ' 

7. Seven year.s agu A's age wa.s just tliree time:* tlmt <»r 
H, but seven years hence A's age will l>e just tloubje ^hat of 
H. What is tl)e age of eacli ? 

8. Find the value of x in 2, x— y 4x — i\—\, 

9. Find the values of x and v: X'-|-xy-|-v- = 175, x^*— v-' 
=875. 

10. A man began , saving by putting by 1 cent on New 
A'ear'sDay, 2 cents on tJie next day, 8 cents on the next, 
lind so on. In how njany days would lie have put by .t98.7*>".' 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

I l''roiti Houston's Njeiv Phytjeal Geography.) 

[First Grade Certificate.] 
L Of what does physical geograpliy treat V 
2. (1) Enumerate five proofs of the rotiuidity lof the 

learth. {2} Give the causes of the change of seasons, 

8. (1) Give proofs that the interior of the earth is still 

in a highly heated condition. ,(2^ Statue the eau.ses of vol- 

^•anoes and eartiiqual<es. 

4. Describe the changet^, and state tlie six agencies 
iiiow causing changes in rhe earth's crust, 

5. (1) Wiiat are geysers? Explain the cause of their 
*-ruption, and name the three largest geyser regions of tlie 
world. (2) How does the destruction ,of tJie foj-ests increase 
^ he severity of inuiidationK? 



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B. (1) Distinguish between ebb, flood, spring, and neap 
tides. (2) Where does the parent tidal wave originate? 

7. Define climate, and enumerate the circumstances 
which influence the climate of a country. 

8. (1) Explain the origin of winds. (2) Describe some 
of the peculiarities of cyc}ohes. 

9. (1) Define flora, and give the characteristic features 
of the flora of each of the horizontal zones of vegetation. 
\2) Define fauna, and state upon what the existence of ani- 
mal life is dependent. 

10. Locate the United States: (1) As to mathematical 
zone; (2) physical zone. (3) Between Avhat two isothermal 
lines? (4) Give the causes of difference in the climate of 
the Eastern and Western coasts, (o) State in what wind 
zone the ITnited States is situated. 



JUNE, i8q9. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

(From Reed's Word Lessons.) 

fFiist. Second or Third Grade Ceniflcate.l 

1. Unite the following words and suffixes, define the 
words formed, and give the rule of spelling that applies to 
eacli: Censure — able, hate — ^ful, glad — den, conceal — ed. 
Iienefit — ed, acquit — ed, occur — ed, pity — able, copy — iist. 
charge — able. 

2. Syllabicate and mark diacritically the vowel in the 
accented syllable in each of the following: Incisive, dolo- 
rous, molecule, apparatus, exquisite, stereotype, inter- 
stice, inventory, data, abdomen. 

3. Mark diacritically the principal vowel in each of the 
following: Dance, gape, forge, squad, aider, tongue, 
feud, rude, wolf, seive. 

4. Unite each of the following prefixes to a word, and 
define so as to show the meaning of the prefix: Con, ex, 
re, sub, in, dis, ad, ab, trans, pre. 

5. Separate the affix from the root-word, and define 
t*ach affix: Controversy, kingdom, semi-annual, belittle, 
citizenship, animalcule, transmit, apiary, affix, par- 
entage. 

6. Forin and define ten words, using an affix meaninji 
each of the following: Twice, against, made of, fold 
manner, one who, without, full of, before, many. 

7. Write and define two homonyms for eacli of tiif- 
following: Cent, pear, air, rain, meat, you, idol, fain, 
isle, raise. 



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8. Write the following, and, after each, one or more 
synonyms: C'a]7acity, rivalry, talkative, famous, bring, 
forsake, judgme-it, final, poverty, cliaracter. 

9-10. Write correctly the following words, spelled pho- 
netically: Ak-we-dukt, ko-ko, vit-lz, kur-te-se, a-mund (a 
nut), lang-guor, sam-un, ger-kin, sham-my, ek-we-te, con- 
cen-sus, raz-ber-e, rez-er-vwor, kub-berd, bel-lus, for-hed. 
skol-lup, skane, kops, di-a-fram. 

READING, 

fFirst, Second or Third Grade Certiticate.l 

1. Define: Pitch, tone, volume, cadence, accent. 

2. Name tlie ditterent methods of teaching reading. 
State your preference and your reasons for it. 

3. Name the essential qualifications of a good teacher 
of reading. 

4. illustrate your way of teaching other subjects in 
connection with reading. If you have never taught, tell 
how you think it should be done. 

5-7. Read orally a paragraph oi- phrase selected by the 
examiner. 

H-IO. Read an extract of poetry selected by the exam- 
iner. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

(From Fields' U. S. Grammar iSchool History and Green's Florida History.) 

rsecond or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Outline briefly your plan of teaching history. 

2. Relate the circumstances under which the Pacific 
was first seen. 

3. Write about tlie witchcraft delusion. 

4. Give the circumstances wii'ich brought it about, and 
write, somewhat in detail, of tlie greatest achievement in 
Jefferson's administration. 

5. (live the history of tlie steamboat, from its inven- 
tion to tile present time. 

6. Describe the battle that saved Florida from inva- 
sion in 1864. 

7. Relate the history of the development and advance- 
ment of public education in the United States. 

8. Give an account of Dr. Turnbull and his colony. 

9. Tell of the '' Republic of Florida," and narrate the 
stxjry of the Prophet P^rancis and his daughter Malee. 

10. (a) Wliat was Alabama's wish in regard to West 
Florida? (b) Recite briefly the history of event.s under 
both the first provisional and the first territorial governors, 
and who were tliey ? 

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UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

(From Field's U. S. Grammar School History and Green's Florida Historj-. ) 

[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. What benefits should pupils receive throug^h the 
study of history ? 

2. Recite the difficulties which arose in the Constitu- 
tional Convention, and the compromises by which they 
were settled. 

3. Tell who inaugurated,it, and explain what is meant 
by the "■ spoils system." 

4. Trace briefly the history of the territorial acquisi- 
tions of the United States. 

5. Give a statement of the comparative strengtii and 
resources of the North and of the South for carrying on 
the Civil War; the losses on both sides and the debt in- 
curred. 

6. Write a brief sketch showing the development of 
the United States in literature and art, and through inven- 
tions. 

7. Write briefly of the founding ol St. Augustine, the 
destruction of Ft. Caroline and the subsequent slaughter. 

8. Give a brief outline of the history of Florida under 
British rule to the second Spanish occupation. 

9. Tell the circumstances of the purchase, of the rati- 
fication of the treaty, and of the transfer of the Floridas to 
the United States. 

10. Detail briefiy the happenings of the Seminole War 
after General Zachary Taylor took command. 

ARITHMETIC. 

(P'rom Milne's Standard Aritiimetic » 

[Second or Third Grade Certifioie.l 

1. Find the four prime factors of 4862. 

2. Five-eighths of A 's money increased by the diffei- 
ences between § and f of his money equals $1020. How much 
money has A ? 

.3. Express by Roman notation the quotient of 12X12 
hundred-thousandths divided bv 12-millionths. 

4. From ,9 mi. take 120 rds.'^4 yds. 2 ft. 

5. The circumierence of a circular field is 436 rds. How 
many acres does it contain ? 

6. A deposited 85% of his money in a bank, and, after 
drawing out 20% of the sum deposited, he had $3859 in the 
bank. What was the amount of his money ? 

7. What principal will produce $17J8 interest from 
.Tanuary 10, 1892, to March 13, 1892. at 6% ? 

8. If 54 men, in 28 days of 10 hours each, dig a trench 
352 yards long, 1\ yards broad, and 1^ yards deep, how long 



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a trench 2| yards broad and If yards deep, will 112 men dig 
in 25 days of SJ honrs each ? 

9. What must be the depth, in feet and inches, of a 
cubical bin that will contain exactly 12(X) bushels ? 

10. What is the weiglit of a marble pyramid whose 
base is 4 feet square and whose altitude is S feet, if a cu))ic 
foot of marble weighs 171 pounds? 

ARITHMETIC, 

(From Milne's t?tandard Arithmetic.) 
[First Grade Certiticate.l 

1. A pole 63 feet long was broken into two unequaf 
pieces, and | of the longer piece equaled f of the shorter. 
What was tlie length of each i)iece ? 

2. If a grocer's scales give only 15| oz. for a pound, of 
how much money does he defraud his customers in the sale 
of 5 bbl. of sugar, each weighing 2 cwt. 10 lb. 12 oz., true 
weight, at 5 cents a pound? 

8. What is the diameter of a Avater wheel if an arc of 
IS° of its circumference is 1 ft. 9 in. in length ? 

■1. Find a singh^ discount equivalent to two successive 
discounts of 12^% and 8% on a bill of $860. 

5. The proceeds of a note for 1 mo. 18 da. when dis- 
counted at a bank at 5 % were .$1869.85. What was its face? 

6. Find the face of a draft on New York, at 60 days' 
sight, bought for $650, exchange being at l\% premium, and 
money being worth 6%. 

7. If a box five feet long will hold 100.44 bushels, now 
much will a- similar box 10 feet long hold ? 

8. There is a circular park 250 rods in diameter, and 
within it is a circular lake 125 rods in circumference. What 
is the area of the park exclusive of the lake? 

9. If in selling cloth f of the gain is equal to f^ of the 
selling price, for how much will 83 yards sell that cost .$5 
l)er yard ? 

10. A tree was 3 feet in diameter at the butt, and its 
diameter at a height of 40 feet was 1 foot. What where tlie 
cubical contents of that portion of the tree ? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

(From Metcalf's Knglisli Grammar.) 
rSecond or Third Grade Certificate. 1 

1. Construct a complex sentence containing an adject- 
ive plii'ase and an adverbial phrase, and underscore eacli. 

2. Make complete analysis of the following sentence: 
"■He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord, 
and that which he hath given will he pay him again." 

3. In the following (1) tell the kind of sentence, and 
why; (2) write each clause and phrase, its kind, and what 

LofC. 



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it modifies: " We cannot perceive that the study of grani- 
mar makes even the smallest difference in the speech of 
people who ha.A^e always lived in good society." 

4. Define inflection, Miiich parts of speech have In- 
rtection, and what is it called when applied to different 
ones? 

5. Write each of the following words in a column, and 
write opiiosite in four other columns, the plural of each, 
the feminine (if any), the possessive singular, th»^ possess- 
ive plui'al (if any) : Boy, man, hox, money, he-bear, ox, 
lord, actor, t, executor. 

6. (1)1 will remember that. (2) I will remember that 
which you say. (8) I will remember what you say. (a) 
Parse that in full in (1) and (2). (bj Explain the objects of 
the transitive verbs remeinber and say in both (2) and (.8). 

7. Write the synopsis of the verb (//(wv with //<• in all 
moods and tenses of the passive voice. 

8. Explain and illustrate the formation of tlie pro- 
gressive and passive fomis of verbs. 

9. Write short sentences and illustrate each of the fol- 
lowing uses of the infinitive phrase: (1 ) Subject of a sen- 
tence; (2) object of a verb; (3) object of a preposition ; (4) 
complement of a verb; (5) appositive; (6) adjective; (7) 
adverb. 

10. Parse in full: "•Than whom, Satan excepted, none 
higher sat." 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

(From Metcalf's lOnglish Grammar,) 

[First Grade Certificate,! 

1. (a) Classify the following sentence; (b) make a list 
of the clauses, tell the kind, and what eacli modifies: " He 
gave /'/ for his opinion, that -d^hocver could make two oars of 
corn or two blades of grass to s^ro-w upon a spot of ground 
where only one grew before would deserve l>etter of mankind, 
and do more service to his country, than the whole race of 
politicians put together.''' 

2. Make a list of all tlie phrases in the above sentence, 
tell the kind, and what each modifies. 

3. Parse in full the ten words in italics in tlie above 
sentence. 

4. Write each of tlie following words in a column, and 
opposite in four other columns tlie plurals of each, the fem- 
inine (if any), the jjo.ssessive singular, the possessive plural 
(if any): Boy, man, ))ox, valley, lily, ox. lord, actor, 
t, executor. 

5. Show in a tabulated form all the kinds of pronouns, 
and the subdivisions of each. 



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6, ConHtruc't .seuteiu'es illiistratjn<;- t)ie use of uouii 
clauses as a subject, an objet-t of a preposition, a eonipie- 
luent, aji object of a verb, and an appositive. 

7, "Write tl)e synopsis of tlie verb r/zrv.fc with ///c/c in all 
file moods and tenses of the passive voice. 

8, Write two sentences, one containinji: a restrictive 
clause, the other a non-restrictive clause. Explain the 
punctuation, 

y, Writ(^ sentences illustrating the use of eacl) of the 
following connectives: (I) Correlative conjunction; (2) 
suboi'dinate conjunction; (8) conjunctive pronoun; (4) con- 
junctive adverb; (5) compound conjunctive adverb. 

10. Illustj-ate that use detei'niines tlje pa)'t,s of s))eecl) 
of words, 

GEOGRAPHY- 

(From Kedway's Cieosraphy, I 

t First. Second or 'J'ljird Grade (Jertitjcate. ] 

1, (a) Name six seas and a gulf on the east coast of 
Asia; (b) tlie peninsulas j)rojecting from this coast; (cj 
the plateau occupying the peninsubi of India, and tell of 
what it is composed, 

2. Give seven principal occupations of man, and tell 
in which section of the United States eacli is most largely 
carried on. 

8. As relates to Mexico tell; (1 ) In wliat /ones located; 
(2) the number of states composing it; (3) of its climate 
and plant life; (4) in what consists its cliief wealth. 

4. Write the countries of South America, and opposite 
each its capital. Locate and describe its principal lake. 

5. Compare Nortli and South America as to: (l)(ien- 
eral shape; (2) western highlands; (3)' heights of peaks; 
(4) extent of plateaus; (5) the number and regularity of 
mountain ranges. 

6. (a) A notefl cape of the United .States anil the mosl 
>southern point of the European mainland are in about tlie 
same latitude; name each, (b) Nanie and bound the two 
important republics of Europe. 

7. (a) Name the most densely populated country of 
Europe, (b) Explain why the British isles are moister fintl 
milder than the eastern coast of America in the same lati- 
tude. 

8. Describe the five great river systems of Africa. 
9-10. Draw a map of Florida, placing the na)ne of each 

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COMPOSITION. 

(From Svvinton"s Xew School Oompo-sition.) 
[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Define composition, sentence, laaragraph, discourse, 
diction. 

2. Construct six simple sentences with which illustrate 
'' Synthesis of Compound Sentences." 

3. Under the topic '' Conversion and Combination of 
Sentences," illustrate expansion, contraction, combination. 

4. (a) Give three requisites of good style, (b) Name 
some violations of each and explain what is meant by re- 
dundancy, tautology, and circumlocution. 

5. (a) Define and illustrate four figures of speech. (b> 
Name tliree qualities to be aimed at in the construction of 
paragraphs. 

6-lU. Prepare a topical outline and write an essay of 
not less than 200 wards on one of the following subjects': 

(a) The Necessity of Ripe Scholarship to the 

Teacher. 

(b) The Result of Giving Long Terms to Teacli- 

ers' Certificates of Low Grade. 

(c) Politics in the Public Schools. 

(d) Female Sutfrage. 

PHYSIOLOGY. 

(From Steele's Hygienic Physiology.) 
[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.], 

1. Tell why we need food. Describe the three i)rinci- 
pal kinds of food, and state why one kind is insufficient. 

2. Describe the four processes of digestio.n, naming the 
organs and the functions of the juices employed in each, 
px'ocess. 

3. Give the relative value and tlie length of time re- 
(juived far the digestion of soane of the- principal kinds of 
food. 

4. State five evil results of rapid eating, and the dis- 
eases liJvely to grow out of it. 

5. Tell the effects of alcohol upon digestion, and ex- 
plain what is meant by '•'•fatty degeneration." 

6. Describe the structure and three principal organs of 
tlie nervous system. 

7. Write a description of the organ, of taste, and tell 
its uses. 

8. Describe the organ of hearing, and rell how to cai-i 
for it. 

9. Write a description of the eye, and explain thh 
causes of far-sightedness and near-sightedness^ 



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10. Give five of tlie principal constituents of tobacco 
smoke, and describe the physiological effects of toba.cco, 
especially upon the young. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE 

fFrom Compayre's Psycholo^ty Applied to Hdijcation,! 
[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

L Give the three different divisions of education, the 
tl liferent means of physical education, and the substance of 
Avhat Horace Mann said on hygiene. Chap. I. 

2- State tl)e )iecessities of physical exercises, and tell 
which are bejst, and why. Chap. II. 

8. Besides knowing well what he teaches, what two 
other things sliould the teacher know? Chap. Ill, 

4- ReiH'oduce what is said of teaching tlirough tl)e 
eyes, and of the educative value of drawing. 1 hap!^ IV, ' 

5. Discuss methods of instruction; tell how they 
sliould vary and to whom be accommodated. Cliap. VII. ' 

6. Give the substance of what is said of the import- 
ance of tlie black-boai'd and other school apparatus; also, 
of the office of books. Chap. VIII. 

7. (a) What is said of the necessity of preparation by 
the teacher for the recitations? (b) Explain the SocratiV- 
method, and discuss its value and limitations. Chap. IX. 

8. Discuss oral and written exercisers, and the method 
of conducting each. Chap. X. 

9. Give the substance of what is said about the correc- 
ttion of compositions. Chap. X. 

10. (a ) Disciiss character and moral education, as com- 
jmred with knowledge and intellectiuil education. (b) 
.State the essentiaLs of moral eduxjation. (Jhap. XI, 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 

J Fi'ora l-'eiermaa'.s Klem<snts o/ Civil Governcfien.t ) 

[First Grade Certificated 

1- State .several reasons why civil govei-nment should 
ibe taught in the public scho,ols. 

2. Name, in .order, all grades of government, begijining 
Avith the fa^mily as the starting point. 

8. Name all the officers usual in county' governnientv, 
stating briefly the duties of each, 

-L Name the officers of the State, and givje briefly the 
duties of each. 

5. (a^ Discuss the three forms of x^ivil government. 
ih) GiA^e the reasons for your answer, and say whether the 
tendency in the United States is towards jjure clemocj'acj 
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6. Is it right to abstain from voting because of corrup- 
tion in politics ? Why ? 

7. (a) Express your views upon vote-buying and vote- 
selling, (b) State the penalty for bribery in ancient Ath- 
ens, and your views as to the penalty. 

8. Explain the necessary steps in making a State law. 

9. Describe the Australian ballot. 

U). Which do you like better for nominating State and 
county officers, primary elections or partv conventions? 
(Jive reasons for your eiioice. 

ALGEBRA, 

(From While's School Algebra.) 
I First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Write the following formulas: (1 ) Tlie scpiare of the 
sum of two numbers; (2) the square of the difference of 
two numbers; (8) the product of the sum and difference of 
two numbers; (4) tlie divisibility of a" +bn ; (5) the divisi- 
bility of an — b" . 

2. Resolve each into four prime factors: x"*— y", m" — 
11", x«-f>4, x'-2x=' — l(5x-'+2x+ir), x-'+7x='+9x-''-7x-*l(). 

•^. Find the H. C. F. and the L. C. M. of x="'-2x3— x-' 
and x='-f2x«+2x+l. 

x2+20x+96^ x2-8x-20 x^+lOx+lB 
-t- Shnplify ^.,_,5^+5o^x-^+10x-24" x'-7x+10 
11 _l_ _1^ 

^ ~ y 

6. There are four mnnl)ers such that, by adding each 
to twice the sum of the remaining three, we' have 46, 43, 41. 
and 38, respectively. Wl^at are tlie numbei's? 

2, 8+3v^ 



Solvt^ the equations — -I- — =a ; — — — — b. 
J X ^ y ' - 



7. Rationalize tlie divisor and simplifv 

' ^ 3v ;5+4i 2 
8. form the quadratic ecjuation whose roots are 2 — 

V 3 and 2+v 3. 

9. A man bought a certain amount of sugar for $6fi; 
but if sugar were to rise one cent per pound, he would ob- 
tain fifty pounds less for the same money. How much 
sugar did he liuy ? 

10. The sum of the diagonal and the longer side of a 
rectangle is three times the length of the shorter side, and 
the difference in the length of the two sides is four yards. 
Wliat is the area of the rectangle? 



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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

(From Houston's New Physical Geography.) 

[First Grade Certittcate.l 

1. Define physical geography. 

2. drive five proofs of the rotundity of the earth. 

3. (a) Give three reasons for tlie belief that the interior 
of the earth is in a highly heated condition; (b) three rea- 
sons for the theory of the original fluidity of the earth. 

4. Discuss earthquakes : (I) Facts established; (2) va- 
I'ieties of motion; (3) velocity of motion; (4) their causes; 
(5) periodicity and distribution. 

5. Give three proofs of the subsidence of ocean beds. 

6. Give four noticeable peculiarities in the relief forms 
of continents. 

7. Name five conditions which influence the quantity 
of water discharged by rivers. 

8. State four causes for the irregular distribution of 
heat over the earth. 

9. Name the conditions requisite for the existence of 
forests; of jjrairies; of steppes; of deserts. 

10. Distinguish between ebb, flood, spring, and neap 
tides, and tell where the parent wave originates. 



SEPTEMBER, 1899. 

ORTHOGRAPHY, 

(From Reed's Word Lessons.) 

[First. Second or Third Grade Certiticate.l 

1. Unite the following words and sufflxes, define the 
words formed, and give the rule of spelling that applies to 
each: Censure — able, hate — ful, glad — den, conceal — ed, 
benefit — ed, acquit — ed, occur — ed, pity — able, copy — ist, 
charge — able. 

2. Syllabicate and mark diacritically the vowel in the 
accented syllable in each of the following: Abdomen, con- 
dolence, rapine, lowering, apparatus, hymenean, accli- 
mate, inventory, finance, dictionary. 

3. Give five nouns, underscoring the suffix in each, the 
suffixes meaning respectively: Act of, to make, one who, 
pertaining to, state of being. 

4. Form a derivative by using each of the following as 
a prefix or suffix, and define each word formed: Age, ery, 
cule, dom, ful, ish, ity, ment, ness, post. 

5. Write the following and opposite each a homonym: 
Hude, sear, surf, serge, auger, throw, team, suite, 
joot, strait. 



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6. Write the following, and after each one or more syn- 
onyms; Capacity, rivalry, talkative, famous, bring, 
forsake, judgment, final, poverty, character. 

7-10. Write correctly the following words, spelled 
phonetically; Ak-we-dukt, ko-ko, vit-lz, kur-te-se, am-und 
(a nut), laiig-guor, sam-un, ger-kin, sham-ray, ek-we-te, 
con-cen-sua, raz-ber-e, rez-er-vwor, kub-berd, bel-lus, for- 
hed, skol-lup, skane, kops, di-a-iram. 

FEADING. 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate,! 

1. (a) Give the two-fold purpose which should guide 
tlie teacher in teaching reading, (b) Which is the imme- 
diate purpose; which the great ultimate purpose ? 

2. in teaching reading, what must invariably precede 
thought-getting, or reading proper? 

3. (a) In word-study, what three things must a child 
learn about a word before he can be said to know it ? (b) 
Name them in the order to be taught. 

•1. (a) If you teach primary reading by the word meth- 
od, when should the study of phonics begin ? (b) Give two 
purposes of phonic drills. 

5. Reading is tliought-getting and thought-giving: 
what is the unit of reading ? 

6. Why should the teacher from the first, teach thn 
child that he mu.st read by sentences? 

7. (a) Upon what does expression in oral reading de- 
pend ? (b) Explain the necessity of silent reading by sen- 
tences to precede the oral in primary reading. " * 

8. Show the necessity of conversation lessons in con- 
nection with reading, taking tor example, 

"The curfew toUs the knell,' etc. 

9. (a) rfliow the value in primary and lower grades, of 
the teacher's frequently i-eading or reciting the best things 
in literature; also tlie necessity of mucli supplementary 
reading by pupils, (b) In communities where parents are 
unwilling or unable to buy books, what can and sliould be 
done by the teacher? 

10. Name the series, and give the author's plan of 
teaching beginners to read from the first reader of any 
series. 

11. Read orally a paragraph of prose selected by thn 
examiner. 

12. Read an extract of poetry selected by the exam^ 
iner, 



Florida Uiiiforni Exatninntion Questions, Septeiithcr ^ i8gg. ll)7 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 
(From Field's U. S. Grammar School Historj' and Green's t'lorida History.) 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. (a) Name the wars, with their dates, in which our 
country has been involved from 1776 to 1899. (b) Give 
causes'and results of each. (3) Give tliree principal battles 
in each, (d) Name two leading commanders in the oppos- 
ing armies in each war. 

2. Name the political parties of our country from 
Washington to McKinley, and give one doctrine of each 
party. 

3. Name the territorial acquisitions of the U. S. in 
tlieir order. 

4. Name five important treaties and give the substance 
of each. 

5. State facts to each of the following: Philip Living- 
stone, Horace Greeley, Wm. H. Seward, Marchand, Drey- 
fus, Kruger, Kitchener, Aguinaldo, Dewey, Torral. 

6. Name five great inventions of the nineteenth cen- 
tury with their inventors. 

7. Name the different countries to which Florida be- 
longed in the proper order. 

8. (a) Give the boundary lines of East and West Flor- 
ida, (b) When and under what circumstances was Florida 
thus divided? (c) When and under what circumstances 
were the sections re-united? 

9. Outline the Seminole War from beginning to end, 
giving the principal commanders, massacres, battles and 
treaties. 

10. Name the Governors of Florida from the Civil war 
to the present, giving one event in each administration. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

(From Field's U. S. Grammar School History and Green's Florida History.) 

[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Where did Raleigh attempt to plant a colony ? Give 
its history. 

2. (a) When and by whom was Maryland settled? (b) 
What advantages did the Maryland charter confer? (c) 
Tell of the difficulties between the Catholics and the Pro- 
testants. 

3. Give account of the surrender of Burgoyne. What 
were the immediate results? 

4. Relate the circumstances which, at the time of the 
e-stablishing of the Constitution, led to having two houses 
of Congress. 

5. What caused the war with Mexico ? Give the re- 
sults. 



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6. Mention the principal engagements in the war with 
Spain, with the date of each. What treaty closed this war? 

7. What was included in East Florida, and what in 
West Florida when they were separated under different 
governments. 

8. (a) What change in the ownership of Florida took 
place at the close of the French and Indian War? (b) 
Why did Florida not take part in the Bevolutionary War ? 

9. Who was '' Old Rory " ? Tell some story in connec- 
tion with him, 

10. Give the history of education in Florida. 

ARITHMETIC. 

(From Milne's Standard Arithmetic.) 
rSecond or Third Grade Certificate.] 
X. 3|+6|X2J-It^2<=? 

2. B owned .35 of a factory and sold .4 of his share to 
C, after which five hundred thousandtlis of the factory was 
destroyed by fire, B's loss being $1680. What was the Value 
of the factory ? 

3. At 3^ cents a foot board measure, what is the cost of 
five pieces of sawed timber, each measuring 18 feet long, 1 
foot 4 inches wide, and U inches thick ? 

4. How much cheaper will it be to pave a street J of a 
mile long and 60 feet wide with asphalt at .$0.22 a square 
foot, than to pave it with granite blocks at .$3.10 a squart- 
yard ? 

6. A dealer bought grain by measure and sold it by 
weight, thereby gaining 1^ per cent, in the number of bush- 
els. He sold at a price 5 per cent, above his buying price, 
and received $4910.976 for the grain; find the cost. 

6. A commission merchant whose rate both for selling 
and investing is 5 per cent., receives 24000 pounds of poi'k, 
worth 6 cents a pound, and $8000 in cash, with instructions 
to invest the whole in cotton. What will be his entire com- 
mission ? 

7. A bookseller bought books at 12^ per cent, discount 
from the retail price, which was $2 per volume, and sold 
them at the retail price. What was his gain per cent? 

8. For what sum must a note be drawn at 8 months to 
net $150, after it is discounted at a bank at 6 per cent.? 

9. How many barrels of water will a cylindrical cis- 
tern hold whose diameter on the bottom is 6 feet, and whose 
height is six feet? 

10. How much more will it cost at $1.85 a rod to fence 
a field in the form of a rectangle, 135 rods long and 60 rods 
wide, than to fence a field of equal area in the form of a 
square ? 



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ARITHMETIC, 

(From Milne's htandard Arithmetic) 
[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. I have a lot in the form of a parallelograin contain- 
ing one acre. The distance between two of its parallel 
sides is 12 rods. What is its length ? 

2. What will be tlie cost of a triangular piece of land 
whose base is 18.36 cli,, and its altitude 10,54 ch., at $70 per 
acre ? 

3. How many pounds of butter, at 24 cents a pound, 
must be given in exchange for 186 yards of muslin which in 
sold at the rate of 15 yards for a dolhir ? 

4. C can dig a well in 25 days, and C and D in 15 days. 
How long will it take D to dig what remains after C' has 
dug 1 of it? 

5. D, E, and F earned .$39,36; E earned three times hs 
much as F, and D four times as much as E, How inucl) 
did each earn ? 

6. What is the duty on 18 pieces of Brussels carpeting, 
of 60 yards each, invoiced at 45 cents per yard, tlie specific 
duty being 38 cents per yard and the ad valoreni duty 35 
per cent.? 

7. What must be paid for stock which pays a dividend 
of 10 per cent, so as to realize 7 per cent, on the investment? 

8. A boai'd is 18 feet long, 20 inches wide at one end, 
and tapers gradually until it is only 1 foot wide at tlie other 
end. It is one inch thick. How many board feet does it 
contain ? 

9. At what time between 4 and 5 o'clock will the liandn 
of a clock be exactly opposite ? 

10. A cubic foot ot cast iron weigl^s 4-5(1) pounds. What 
is the weight of a cannon ball wliose diameter is 18 inches? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

(From Metcalf s Knglish Grammar.) 

[Second or Third Grade Certiticate. ) 

1. (a) Define inflection; (b) case, (c) What does tlu* 
apostrophe in the possessive case denote? (d) Decline 
child; (e) it. 

2. Name Ave different inflections of nouns to denote 
the plui'al, and give two examples of each. 

3. Name all the classes of pronouns and give two ex- 
a.iij)les of eMch. 

4. (a) Define comparison, (band c) Compare: Able, 
dangerous, manly, evil, (d) Give two modal adverbs. (e| 
<Tive two correlative conjunctions. 

5. (a) Define verb phrases, (b) Distinguish between 
complete and incomplete verbs, (c) frive a sentence using 



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Ih- as a complete verb; (d) and one using /v as an ineoniplet;^ 
verb, (e) Give sentences usingyfi' transitively and intrans- 
itively. 

6. (a) Conjugate see in the passive voice, indicative 
mode, present, perfect tense, (b) Give the principal parts 
of the verbs do, draw, go, lie (to recline), and blow. 

7. (a) Define the historical present. Give a sentence 
containing the infinitive used (b) as a noun; (c) as an ad- 
jective; (d) as an adverb, (e) Give a sentence containing 
a verbal adjective. 

8. Give a sentence containing a clause used (a) as an 
adjective; (b) as an adverb; (c) as a noun, (d) Diagi-am: 
" ' Tis only noble to be good." 

9. Analyze the following sentence: 

'' For the structure that we raise 
Time is with materials filled, " 

10. Parse in full all italicized words: 

'•'■There is a balm for those who weep." 

'' Do what you can." 

" True worth is in l>eing^ not seeming." 

" Give every man thine ear, but fe-^o thy voice." 

" He came home Friday." 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 
(From Metcalf's Knglish Grammar.) 

[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. (a) What is meant by the conjugation of a verb? 
(b) Give a complete synopsis of the verb break in the third 
person singular. 

2. (a) Distinguish between the passive and progressive 
forms of the verb, and give an example of each, (b) Dis- 
ringuish between the uses of the word playing in the follow- 
ing sentences: 

(1) He is expert at playing ball. 

(2) He is playing ball. 

(3) The boy playiiig ball is ten years old. 

8. (a) Define clause, (b) What are the three grrat 
classes of subordinate clauses? (c) Give examples of sul)- 
stantive clauses used in five different ways. 

4. Give two sentences each containing a verbal adjec- 
tive. Give three sentences each containing a verbal noun. 

5. Analyze: 

'' His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed 
in him, that nature might stand up and say 
to the world, ' This is a man.' " 

6. Parse in full all italicized words: 

I dare do all tluit may become a man. 
They do notliing except complain. 



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Education attempts to change -iC</tat is into what 
ought to be, 

7. Diagram : 

(a) " They are sick tliat surfeit with too much, as 

they tliat starve with nothing," 

(b) "Howe'er it be, it seems to uie, 
'Tis only noble to be good," 

8. (a) Define a "phrase; (b) inflection; (c) expletive, 
(d) Give sentences using ^^ as four different parts of speecli, 

9. (a) Give the rule for forming the possessive case of 
nouns in both singular and plural, (b) Decline: Thou, it, 
man, bird. 

10. Name every kind of pronoun, and give sentences 
illustrating the different kinds. 

GEOGRAPHY, 

(From Redway's Geography,) 

[First. Second or Third Grade CGrtittcate,! 

1, Define soil; detritus; vapor; dew; rain. 

2. Make an outline that you would follow in teachuiy; 
Due of the grand divisions of land. 

8. Discuss Asia by your outline, 

■i. Name five of tlie most useful metalrt, and tell about 
tiiieir occurrence, mining, and uses. 

5. In the eastern continent name the regions of very 
ilense population, 

6. Name the States of the United States and the coun- 
tries of the Old World crossed by the 30th parallel of north 
latitude. 

7. (1) Name the countries of Central America. (2) 
Discuss their government and pi'oductions. (8) Name tlie 
largest lake. 

8. Make a list of the divisions and colonial possessions 
<)f the British Empire. 

9. What route might a trading vessel follow, and what 
goods would it probably carry in making trips each way 
V)etween (a) San Francisco and Venice; (b) Boston and 
jNIadras? 

10. (a) Name in order, beginning at the north, all 
tlie counties of Florida bordering on the Gulf; fb) all bor- 
xlering on the Atlantic; (c) all that have no sea coast. 

COMPOSITION, 

(From Sw'intons New Scliool Comiiosition.) 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Language expresses thought; what is the unit oj* 
language ? 



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2. Combine the following statements into a simple sen- 
tence, and expand your sentence, making it first complex, 
then compound : 

(a) Alexander saw himself lord of all Western 

Asia, 

(b) He saw himself such at the age of twenty- 

five. 

(c) He had defeated the Persians. 

(d) They were defeated in the great battles of Is- 

sus, Granicus, and Arbela. 
8. Combine the following statements into a compound 
sentence of two members, then contract it into a complex 
sentence: 

(a) Augustus Caesar has been called a great 

prince. 

(b) Louis XVI, of France, has been called a great 

prince. 

(c) Deprive both of their crown. 

(d) They will both dwindle into obscure and triv- 

ial characters. 

4. Give the general rule for the position of modifiers 
in the sentence, and two rules, regarding modifiers, for the 
use of tlie comma. 

5. (a) Change the following loose sentence to a period: 
We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small dif- 
ficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad 
weather. 

(b) Make one of your sentences in "•2" periodic, (c) 
Which of your complex sentences in "3" is periodic? (d) 
Which kind of sentence, loose or periodic, should be cul- 
tivated by young writers, and why? 

6. Explain the qualities, unity, clearness, and strength. 

7. Write a sentence illustrating each quality, in which 
the quality shall be violated, then point out the fault and 
improve the sentence. 

8. Explain the three qualities to be aimed at in the 
construction of paragraphs, namely: Unity of thought; 
continuity of sentences; variety of sentences. 

9-10. Prepare a topical outline and write a composition 
of not less than 200 words, employing the various kinds of 
■sentences mentioned above, and properly paragraphing and 
punctuating the same, on one of the following subjects: 

(a) The Necessity for Industrial Education. 

(b) The Effects of Politics Upon Public Educa- 

tion, 
ic) Teachers' Summer Sclioob^ 



Florida Uniform Exaviiiiation Questions, September, iSgg. 113 

PHYSIOLOGY, 

(From Steele's Hygienic Physiology.) 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Locate (a) the patella; (b) radius. Describe (c) tht- 
rickets; (c) St. Vitus' Dance; (e) synovia. 

2. (a) What organs are under the control of the invol- 
untary muscles? (b) Define fibrils; (c) muscular sense; (d) 
mucous membrane, (e) Why is the breast of a chicken 
white meat while that of a pigeon is dark ? 

3. Define (a) cutis; (b) dentine, (c) Why are scars 
white? (d, e) How should we care for tlie teeth? 

4. Describe the respiratory system as to (a) the trache- 
a; (b) vocal organs; (c)celia; (d) pleura; (e) need of air. 

5. Explain fully what is meant by (a) plasma; (b) 
transfusion; (c) systole; (d) the pulse; (e) lesser circula- 
tion. 

6. Name and describe each division of the alimentary 
canal. 

7. Fully describe the nervous system. 

8. Give a full description of the sp<.'cial senses. 

9. What effect lias alcohol and tobacco upon (a) diges- 
tion? (b) the skin? (c) the circulation? (d) the nervous 
system? (e) the connective tissue? 

10. Give the five evil results attending rapid eating. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE 

[Based on "Arnold's Waymarks."] 
[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Make out an outline to be followed in giving a lesson 
to the First Reader class on the cat. 

2. Give an outline of what should be taught on plants 
to the First, Second, and Third Grades. 

3. What should be taught in the first tliree grades pre- 
paring for grammar? 

4. How should the following be used : (a) Sight read- 
ing; (b) silent reading; (c) concert reading? 

5. (a) Name three tilings to be learned in connection 
witli every word, (b) Name four points to be noted by pu- 
pils in preparing a spelling lesson. 

6. Discuss the use of ijicture.s for language lessons. 

7. (a) In reading what must necessa.riJy precede the ex- 
pression of the author's thought? (b) What kind of excel- 
lencies should the teacher commend in the child's work? 

8. (a) How must all primary truths be attained by tiie 
child ? (b) Show how this applies in aritlimetic? 

- 9. Name five kinds of seat work related to reading, 
five to arithmetic, and five to form or color work, 

10. Wliat is the immediate and wliat the all-important 
end in school discipline ? 

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CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 

(From Petermans Elements of Civil Government ) 
[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Discuss the civil district; its size, purposes, govern- 
ment, officers and their duties. 

2. Name the officers usual in city governments, and 
state the duties of each. 

3. Name the steps necessary for the admission of a 
State into the Union. 

4. (a) Who are citizens of the United States? (b) Name 
six or more rights of citizens guaranteed in the Constitu- 
tion. 

5. (a) How is the membership of the House of Repre- 
sentatives apportioned? (b) How many members are there? 

(c) Wliat is the term of office and salary of each ? (d) Why 
should all bills raising revenue originate in the House? 

6. (a) Under wliat circumstances would the House of 
Kepi'esentatives elect a President of the United States ? 
(b) Under what circumstances would the Secretary of Agri- 
culture become President? 

7. (a) The judicial system of the United States includes 
what courts? (b) What classes of suits at law fall under 
the jurisdiction of the United States court? 

8. Define civil rights, industrial rights, and social 
rights. 

9. (a) Why do laws exist? (b) What is liberty? (c) 
Name tlie kinds of law in existence. 

10. (a) Discuss tlie origin and necessity of political par- 
ties, (b) Name the steps necessary to secui'e delegates to a 
National Convention. 

ALGEBRA. 

(From White's School Algebra,) 
[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Define (a) coefficient; (b) reciprocal; (c) polynomial; 

(d) degree of a term; (e) quadratic equation. 

2. Give the following laAvs of operation: (a) The com- 
mutative law; (b) the associative law; (c) the distributive 
law; (d) the exponent law. 

3. Remove the signs of aggregation and combine in the 
following expression : 

5x— j 5y-[x— (3z-3y)+2z— (ox— 2y-z)] j . 

4. Divide ixs+igxy^-f- Jgys by ^x'^— ^xy+iy^ 

5. Reduce to lowest terms the following: 

2x3— l.Sx^4-23x-12 

7x3— 33x24-18x+8 • 



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6. Reduce to its simplest form : 

\ m 1— m / \ m 1 

\ 1-f-m + m i "^ \ l+m""!— 1112 

7. A man engaged to work m days on tlie conditions 
that he was to receive '? dollars for each day he worked, 
and forfeit b dollars for each day he was idle!! At the end 
of m days he received n dollars. How many days had he 
worked? 

8. If the numerator of a certain fraction be multiplied 
by 2 and the denominator increased by 2, the result will 
equal unity; but if the denominator be multiplied by 2 and 
the numerator increased by 8, the result will be equal to J. 
What is the fraction ? 

9. Multiply 2v'|+3v ^+1 by 8v"P-2v JT 

10. The sum of the square of two numbers exceeds 
twice their product by 9; and the diflference of their squares 
is 1 less than the product. Find the numbers. 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

(From Houston's New Physical Geography.) 

fKirst Grade CertiHcate.l 

1. (a) Enumerate the causes which produce the change 
of the seasons, (b) On what date and where could the sun 
be seen at midnight, and in what direction from the ob- 
server would it appear to be ? 

2. What changes are now going on in the earth's crust? 

3. Discuss volcanoes: (a) Materials ejected; (b) causes 
of volcanic eruptions; (c) regions of volcanoes; (d) pecu- 
liarities of distribution. 

4. (1) Classify springs as to: (a) Size of reservoir; (b) 
shape of reservoir; (c) depth of reservoir. (2) What are 
artesian wells ? 

5. (1) Discuss the origin of winds. (2) Define constant, 
periodical and variable winds. 

6. (1) Distinguish between relative humidity and act- 
ual humidity, (2) Name three conditions under which 
i-ain may be caused. 

7. Name three desert regions in the eastern continent 
and two in the western, and state tlie cause of each. 

8. (1) Explain the origin of constant ocean currents. 
(2) Name four causes that influence the direction of cur- 
rents. 

9. (1) Distinguish between glaciers and icebergs. (2) 
Define three classes of moraines. 

10. What arguments can be adduced to show the prob- 
able unity of the human race? 



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JUNE, 1900. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

(From Reed's Word Lessons.) 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certiticate.l 

1. Unite the following words and suffixes, define tlie 
words formed, and give the rule of spelling that applies to 
e^ich: Admire — ing, blame — able, niove — ment, plague — ing, 
erase — ing, melody — ous, envy — able, greedy — ist, ceremony 
— al, tardy — ness. 

2. Give five nouns, underscoring the suffix in each, the 
suffixes meaning respectively: Lilve, state of being, full 
of, continuing, able. 

3. Give the rule for final e, and give six excej)tions. 

4. Syllabicate, and mark diacritically the vowels and 
accented syllable of the following: Equator, geysers, deci- 
mal, idiocy, decorous, suavity, timorous, athlete, 
troche, atheneum. 

5. Define synonyms, homonyms, paronyms. Give the 
synonyms of the following in opposite columns: Speech, 
diction, judgment, danger, cautious. Give a homonym 
opj)osite the following: So, steal, pearl, load, route. 

6. Discriminate between the synonyms: Frightful, 
tremendous, terrible, shocking, horrible, dreadful, fear- 
ful, awful. 

7. Form a derivation by using each of the following as 
a prefix or suffix, and define each word formed: Age, ery, 
cule, dom, ful, ish, ity, ment, ness, post. 

8-10. Write correctly: Co-al-ess, tar-rif, par-ra-graf, 
crit-eek, li-se-um, nav\'-she-a, jew-sy, kuv-et-us, ba-de-nazh. 
kol-ler (anger), sub-pe-na, sin-a-gog. min-yon-et, kris-a-lis, 
ti-a-lism. 

READING, 

fFirst, Second or Third Grade CertiRoate.l 

1. Name the different methods of teaching reading. 
State your preference and your reasons for it. 

2. Define pitch, tone, volume, cadence, accent. 

3. Name the essential qualifications of a good teacher 
of reading. 

4. What two ordinary school appliances does the scien- 
tific teacher of primary reading u.se more than chart or 
primer? 

5. Give your views fully on supplementary reading, 
6-8. Read a selection of prose. 

9-10. Bead, a selection of poetry. 



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UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

(From Field's U. S. Grammar School History and Green's Florida History.) 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate,! 

1. Sketch briefly Columbus' four voyages. 

2. Tell what you know of Samuel Adams, John Han- 
cock, James Otis, Patrick Henry and Benjamin Franklin. 

8. Name the Presidents in regular order, underscoring' 
tliose serving two terms. 

4. Name five great exi^ositions or fairs in the United 
States, and the date of each. 

5. State facts relative to each of the following: Charles 
Cotesworth Pinckney, Sergeant Jasper, George Peabody, 
Blaine, Bryan, Schley, Clarke, Roberts, Taliaferro. 

6. Wliat is likely to be the issue between the Demo- 
cratic and Republican parties this Presidential year? 

7. Give a sketch of Ponce de Leon and his explorations 
in Florida. Also of Narvaez. 

8. Give the Arbuthnot-Ainbrister incident. 

9. When did the Ilnited States acquire Florida.; what 
was the consideration, and who was the first military gov- 
ernor ? 

10. Sketch the development of Florida for the past ten 
years, relative to its resources, industries and educational 
progress- 

UNITED STATES HISTORY. 

((From Field's U, S. Grammar School History and Green's Florida ijistory.) 
[First Grade Certificate,! 

\. Why should history b.e taught in the public schools? 

2. What European countries laid claim to North 
America, and upon what grounds? 

-S. Discuss briefly each of the following; Bacon> re- 
bellion. Dorr's rebellion, Hartford convention, Trent aflair, 
Itata aflair. ; 

4. State facts relative to each of the following: ^Robert 
Morris, Nathan Hale, Ijafitte, Charles Sumner, Elias Howe. 
George W. Childs, S. J. Tilden, Edison, Marconi, Thomas 
Lipton. 

5. Tell what you know of the Venezuela incident- 

6. From whom, how, and when did the United States 
obtain the following territory; Florida, Ala^ska, Hawaii, 
Puerto Rico, Philippines? 

7. Discuss the Republic of Florida. 

8. Sketch Weatlierford, Osceola, Coacooohee, Wild 
<C!at, Billy Bowlegs. 

9. Discuss the phosphate discoveries, the • Disston 
canal, the great freeze, the great hurricane, the iilibu>ster- 
ing expeditions. 



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10. Name and locate the State schools, iiniversitits 
and colleges of Florida. 

ARITHMETIC. 

• (From Milne's Standard Arithmetic.) 

[Second or Third Grade Certittcste.l 

1. 2^+-fX3|-2^^4i=? 

2. A farmer engaged a man to work for him a year for 
.$216 and a suit of clothes. The man left at the end of 10 
months and received $175 and the suit of clothes; what was 
the value of the suit ? 

3. Divide 12 millionths by 12 thousandtlis. 

4. When it is noon at Greenwich it is 6 hours, 52 min- 
utes, 40 seconds, a. m., at Harrisburg, Pa. What is the 
longitude of Harrisburg? 

5. How many yards of carpet 27 inches wide will be 
required for a room 18 feet long and 16 feet wide, if thr 
strips run lengthwise and there is a waste of one-filth of a 
yard in each strip in matching the pattern ? What will be 
the cost of the carpet at $1.85 per lineal yard ? 

6. A merchant's sales on Monday amounted to $385.84. 
His sales on Monday were 16§ per cent, of 54 per cent, less 
than the amount of goods sold on Tuesday. What was the 
amount of Tuesday's sales? 

7. Mr. H. sold two houses for $3,600 each ; on one he 
gained 25 per cent., and on the other he lost 25 per cent. 
How much was gained or lost by the transaction ? 

8. A merchant sent his agent in St. Paul $3,493.50 to in- 
vest in flour. The agent bought the flour at $4.25 per bar- 
rel, and chai'ged 2| per cent, commission. The merchant 
had the flour insured at Ig per cent., and paid $268.25 foi* 
transportation. The flour was then sold at a gain of 10 per 
cent, on the whole cost. What Avas the selling price per 
barrel ? 

9. For what sum must a note for 2 months 17 days be 
made so that the proceeds after it has been discounted at 
bank at 7 per cent., may be $895? 

10. What is the volume of a frustum of a pyramid, the 
lower base of which is 20 feet square, the upper base 10 feet 
square, and the altitude 20 feet? 

ARITHMETIC, 

(From Milne's Standard Arithmetic.) 
[First Grade Certiticate.] 

1. A Iiorse cost $125 and J the cost of the horse is 4 
times tlie cost of the harness. What did the harness cost? 

2. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days. If A 
can do only f as much as B, liow long will it take' eacli of 
Them to do the work ? 



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3. A miner sold to a broker 2 pounds of gold dust at 
$220 per pound, avoirdupois, and the broker sold it at $1K 
per ounce, troy. Did he gain or lose, and how much ? 

4. A merchant was offered a credit of 3 months on a 
bill of goods amounting to $3,468, or a discount of 2% for 
cash. How much better was the latter offer, money bein<; 
worth 7% ? 

5. How much must be invested in 1% city bonds, 
bought at 101^, brokerage \%, to vield an annual income 
of $840? 

6. What was the list price of an article whose net cost 
was $4.50, after deducting discounts of 40% and 10% ? 

7. How large a 60-day draft can be bought on St. Paul, 
Minn., for $1,260, when the exchange is at \\% premium? 

8. A lady has 2 silver cups, and only one cover for 
both. The first cup weighs 16 ounces, and when it is cov- 
ered it weighs three times as much as the second cup; but 
when the second cup is covered it weighs four times as 
much as the first. What is the weight of the second cup 
and of the cover? 

9. A room is 18 feet long, 15 feet wide and 9 feet high. 
What must be the length of a line extending from one of 
the lower corners to an opposite upper corner? 

10. A man at his marriage agreed that if at his deatli 
he should leave only a daughter his wife should have f of 
his estate; and if he should leave only a son, she sliould 
have \. He left a son and a daughter. * What fractional 
part of the estate should each receive, and how much was 
each one's portion, if the estate was worth $6,591 ? 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

(From Metcalf s English Grammar.) 

[Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. (1) What is grammar ? (2) What is language? (3) 
What is a sentence ? (4) Name and illustrate the two es- 
sential parts of a sentence. (5) What is analysis? 

2. (1) What is a compellative ? (2) Construct a sen- 
tence and give disposition of the compelhvtive, 

3. (1) Distinguish between a phrase and a clause, and 
construct a sentence and underscore a phrase and a clause. 

4. Define all the parts of sj^eech and give the proper- 
ties belonging to each. 

5. Define appositives and state how tliev are usuallv 
set off. 

6. Decline: I, thou, goose, hanger-on, brotlier-in- 
law, 

7. Define gender, person, number and case. 



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8. (1) Disting'iush between transitive and intran.sitiv>.' 
verbs. (2) Tell how the passive voice is always formed, 
and what class of verbs may have a passive voice. 

9. Construct five sentences each containing one of the 
following verbs, used first transitively and then intransi- 
tively: Fly, draw, taste, become, smile. 

10. In'the following quotation name the subject, all the 
clauses, stating what each modifies, and what kind of 
clause it is : 

We, ignorant of ourselves, 
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 
Deny us for our good ; so find we profit 
By losing of our prayers. 
Parse in full the following words in the above sentence: 
We, ignorant, beg, often, harms, which, so, find, 
losing, i^rayers. 

ENGUSH GRAMMAR. 

(From Metcalf s English Grammar.) 
[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Give an example of three kinds of sentences: (1) 
When classified as to form; (2) when classified as to mean- 
ing. 

2. Give tlie possessive singular and plural of the fol 
lowing nouns: Boy, s, clef, keynote, plaintiff, synec- 
doche, bridegroom, hypothesis, courtmartial. 

3. Distinguish between the uses of s/iali •Awd'oiti. 

4. Give the various uses of infiniti/es, and giv^e the 
disposition of the infinitives in the following sentences: 

He came to see me. 

I told him to come home. 

5. Construct two sentences, one containing a restric- 
tive clause, the other a non-restrictive clause, and explain 
the punctuation. 

6. Define noun clause, object complement, attribute 
complement, and write a sentence illustrating each. 

7. Define conjunctive adverbs, and construct a sen- 
tence illustrating the same. 

8. Distinguish between direct and indirect objects, ancll 
give a sentence to illustrate each. 

9. Analyze the following sentence: 

No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears. 
No gem that twinkling hangs from beauty's ears. 
Nor the bright stars which night's blue arch 

adorn. 
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, 
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows 
Down virtue's manly clieek for others' w^oes. 



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10. Parse in full the tollowing words in tlie above sen- 
tence: No, pearl, fortune, that, twinkling, hangs, not, 
stars, adoi'n, nor, suns, that, gild, morn, shine, such, 
tear, down, cheek, woes. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

(From Redway's Geography.) 

[First. Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Define dunes, canyons, delta, bayou, glacier. 

2. Name and locate the mountain systems of North 
and South America. 

3. Write the countries of Europe in a column and op- 
posite each its capital and form of government. 

4. Compare the New England States with tlie South- 
ex'n States as to general shape, extent, topograpliy, indus- 
tries, climate. 

6. Name five of the most useful metals, where found 
and uses. 

6. Define selvas, llanos, pampas, and state what these 
words suggest. 

7. In what latitude are the Pliilippines ? State what 
you know of the climate, the people, principal products and 
"their wortli strategically to the United States. 

8. Trace a water route froin Tampa to Honolulu ; from 
Jacksonville to Iloilo; from Kissimmee to Key West. 

9. Name all the railroads in the State; six principal 
towns in order as to population ; six rivers in order as to 
size. 

10. Make a list of the counties of Florida in a column 
with the county seats opposite. 

COMPOSITION, 

(From Swlnton's New School Composition.) 
[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Define composition, theme, essay. 

2. Define simple, compound, and complex sentences, 
and illustrate each. 

.8. Define style; give four requisites of good style; de- 
fine constrttction and give the qualities a sentence should 
possess. 

4. Give six figures of speech and illustrate each. Dis- 
tinguish between metonomy and synecdoche. 

5. Define period ; loose sentence. Give an instance of 
a loose sentence changed to a period. 

6-10. Prepare a topical outline and write an essay of 
not less than 300 words on one of the following subjects: 

(a) The Good and Evil of Novel Reading. 

(b) Is the Town or the Country the More Appreci- 

ative of the Public Schools? 

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(c) Should a Teacher be Allowed to Teach Longer 
Than One Year on a Third Grade Certifi- 
cate? 

PHYSIOLOGY, 

(From Steele's Hygienic Physiology.) 

fFirst, Second or Tliird Grade Certificate.! 

1. Locate the fibula, scapula, uhia. What frequently 
causes curvature of the spine ? What is a sprain ? 

2. Name all the hopes of the head. 

B. State fully the process of digestion. 

4. Describe fully the structure of the skin, and give 
the theory of complexion. 

5. Explain fully the process of hearing, naming all the 
parts of the ear. 

6. Discuss ventilation, and tell how you would secure 
good ventilation in your school room. 

7. Describe the eye, showing how we see. 

8. Describe the circulaticn, giving a diagram of the 
heart. 

9. Why do the Esquimaux eat whale blubber and 
other fats and the South Sea Islanders eat fruits and vege- 
tables ? 

10. State the effects of tobacco and alcohol upon the 
system. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE. 

[Based on White's Pedagogy.! 

[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Define intellect, knowledge, presentative powers, 
consciousness, attention. 

2. Distinguish between induction and deduction, and 
upon what do they both depend? 

3. Which powers are the most active in the young 
child, and which become the leading powers from fourteen 
to eighteen ? 

•4. What are the ends and means of education; the 
ends of teaching ? 

5. (a) Which one of the author's '' Principles " on 
teaching is axiomatic? (b) Under " Principle II " give the 
natural order in which the powei's of the mind should be 
exercised and the corresponding kinds of knowledge taught. 
(g) Under "Principle IV " what serious mistake do teach- 
ers often make? (d) What is said about ''object teach- 
ing"? 

6. What is essential in leading the pupil to form coi'- 
rect ideals? What caution to teachers in their presenta- 
tion of a truth is here implied ? 



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7. What is the lunction of the drill? How is it often 
abused ? What is the relation of test to study ? How may 
it be abused ? 

8. Give three merits of the " question method." Name 
two defects. What about questions that admit of '^yes 
and no " answers. Give some merits of the "topic meth- 
od." Discuss questioning as an art, 

9. Give your opinion on written examinations. Should 
the results of wiitten examinations be made the basts for 
promotion ? 

10. What should the teacher's pi'eparation include? 
What is said about use of text books ? What about the 
principles lo be observed and tlie methods to be used? 
What about assignment of lessons? Make a program of 
tlie day's work. 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT, 

(From Townsend's Shorter Course ) 

[First Grade Certificate.] 

1. State the good to be derived from teaching Civil 
Government in the public schools. 

2. Define government and show liow you would convey 
to the mind of the child the necessity therefor. 

3. Name the three branches of government, and give 
your reason why they should be kept as separate as pos- 
.sible. 

4. How are the members of each liouse of Congress 
cliosen ? What bills must originate in the lower house and 
why is this ? 

5. What are taxes ? Why is it necessary for the 
I'nited States to borrow money? Can the government lend 
money to individuals? 

6. What are letters of marque and reprisal? 

7. Define a bill and tell how it becomes a law. Trac*' 
it from the time it is drawn until it receives the President's 
approval, 

8. Give a full explanation of a writ of habeas corpus. 
When may it be suspended and why ? 

9. Describe in full the method of nominating a presi- 
dential candidate. 

10. Give both methods of electing a President. 

ALGEBRA. 

(From White's School Algebra,) 

fFir«;t Grade Certificate.] 

1. Define* co-efficient, exponent, equation, radical, 
.-<urd. 

% Divide x" -SGx^-f-ex^-f 5x-l l)v x^ ^5x^-J-l. 



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3. Factor x2-|-(a — c) x— ac. 



4. Solve the equation, x y 

n ~ m ~ 

5. A certain number expi'essed by 2 digits is equal to 
four times the sum of those digits ; but, if 18 be added to 
the number, the digits will be reversed. Find the number. 

6. (2a'*4-b— c)^= ? (write out according to binomial 
tlieorem.) 

7. Find the cube root of ae+Sa'+Ga-'+Ta'-fea^+Sa+l. 

8. Solve the equation, 18x2-27x-26=0. 

9. Find three numbers such that the second will be 
one-half of tiie first, and the third one-third of the first, 
and the sum of tlieir squares will be 441. 

10. Solve the equation, 

3x2— 7v ='+1=0 
xy=6 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

(From Houston's New Physical Geography.) 
f First Grade Certificate.] 

1. Of what does Physical Geography treat? 

2. Define a sidereal year; a tropical year. Which 
value is generally taken for the length of the civil year? 

3. Give Laplace's nebular hypotiiesis. Give the causes 
which produce the change of seasons. 

4. Define volcano, tufa, solfataras, cause of earth- 
quakes, dykes. 

5. Define Archaean time, Palaezoic time, Mesozoic 
time, Cenozoic time. 

6. Discuss the theory of the formation of coal; the 
theory of coral islands. 

7. Define climate, and enumerate tlie circumstances 
which influence the climate of a country. 

8. Define tides, and state why the moon, which is so 
mucii smaller than the sun, should exert a more powerful 
influence in producing tides. 

9. Define isogonal lines; isoclinal lines. Distinguish 
between isoclinal and isothermal lines. 

10. Give the characteristics of the temiierate fauna, 
naming the principal carnivora and herbivora. 



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SEPTEMBER, 1900. 

ORTHOGRAPHY. 

(From Reed's Word Lessons.) 
FFirst, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Unite the following words and sufRxes, and give the 
rule of spelling that applies to each : Admire — ing, blame — 
able, move — ment, plague — ing, erase — ing, melody — 
ous, envy — able, greedy — est, ceremony — al, tardy — 
ness. 

2. Syllabicate, mark diacritically the vowels and ac- 
cented syllable of the following: Abdomen, condolence, 
rapine, lowering, apparatus, hynienean, acclimate, in- 
ventory, finance, dictionary. 

3. Separate the prefix and the root in each of the fol- 
lowing, and write after each prefix its meaning: Abed, af- 
ternoon, belittle, midsummer, misname, withstand, un- 
kind, outstrip, disobey, foresight. 

4. Unite each of the following prefixes to a word, and 
define so as to show the meaning of the prefix: Con, ex, 
i-e, sub, in, dis, ad, ab, trans, pre. 

5. Form and define ten words, using an affix meaning- 
each of the following: Twice, against, made of, fold, 
manner, one who, without, full of, before, many. 

6. Forni and define an adjective with each of the fol- 
lowing suffixes: Er, ish, ible, ous, en. 

7. Give the rule for spelling the second of each of the 
following pairs of words: Bog, boggy; note, noting; begin, 
beginner; victory, victorious; daisy, daisies. 

8. Write and define two homonyms for each of the 
following: Cent, pear, air, rain, meat, you, idol, fain, 
isle, raise. 

9. Write the following, and, after each, one or more 
synonyms: C'apacity, rivalry, talkative, famous, bring, 
forsake, judgment, final, poverty, character. 

10. Write correctly the following words, spelled pho- 
netically: Ak-we-duct, ko-ko, vit-lz, kur-te-se, a-mund 
(a nut), lang-guor, samun, ger-kin, sham-my, ek-we-te, 
con-cen-sus, raz-ber-ry, rez-er-vwor, kub-berd, bel-lus, for- 
hcd, skol-livp, skane, kops, di-a-fram. 

READING, 

[First. Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Name the diiJerent methods of teaching reading. 
State your preference and your reasons for it. 

2. Define pitch, tone, volume, cadence, accent. 

3. Name the essential qualifications of a good teacher 
of reading. 



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4. What two ordinary school appliances does the scien- 
tific teacher of primary reading use more than cliart or 
primer ? 

5. Give your views fully on supplementary reading. 
6-8. Read a selection of prose. 

9-10. Read a selection of poetry. 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 

(From Field's U. S. Grammar School History and Green's Florida History.) 
[First Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. (1) Explain the origin of "Old Dominion" as ap- 
plied to Virginia. (2) Describe the Cavaliers who settled 
therein, and name distinguished persons descended from 
them. 

2. (1) Tell of the first slave vessel built in America. 

(2) Describe some of the vigorous laws of the New England 
Colonies relative to church attendance, exclusion of Quak- 
ers, etc. 

3. Recount the early history of Georgia treating of: 
(1) Oglethorpe's motive for founding it; (2) Relations with 
the Indians; (3) The Salzburgers; (4) Position on Slav- 
ery; (5) The Wesleys. 

4. Recite the difficulties about money during and im- 
mediately following the Revolution, including Shay's 
Rebellion. 

5. Discriminate between the strength and resoui'ces of 
the North and South for carrying on the Civil War, telling 
the losses on both sides, and the size of the Federal war 
debt. 

6. State the original principles of the two great parties, 
tracing the changes in naine of one of them, and discuss five 
of the greatest political issues, past or present, showing the 
positions of each of these parties upon them. 

7. Give a brief history of Florida from its discovery to 
its purchase by the United States. 

y. Relate the history of the Indian Prophet Francis, 
and the story of his daughter Malee. 

9. (1) Recite the circumstances, giving dates, locating 
the capital at Tallahassee, telling wliere the first second 
and third Legislative Councils were held, and the names 
and boundaries of the first four counties created. (2) When, 
by whom and at what cost wa^: the present capitol erected? 

(3) State the result of the agitation to remove the capital 
in 1854; and the principal instigators, the alleged causes, 
and possible outcome of the present agitation to remove it. 

10. Name some of the greatest changes in the laws 
effected bv the Constitutional Convention of 1885. 



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ARITHMETIC, 

(From Milne's Standard Arithmetic.) 
[Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. (1) Write, properly hyphened and punctuated, the 
reading of 250002 1004()005861. (2) Express in figures: One 
hundred billion, one million, one thousand, one; (8) One 
thousand forty-nine dollars, nine cents, five mills; (4) 
XDCCCLXXIX. (5) Express in Roman notation : 2899. 

2. (1) Give the names of three numbf rs appearing in 
any solution by subtraction. (2) Illustrate the use of the 
sign of subtraction. (3) State the two principles of sub- 
traction. (4) Distinguish between an abstract and a con- 
crete number. (5) Name the three numbers appearing in 
any solution by multiplicHtion. (6) Illustrate the use of 
the sign of multiplication. (7) Give the three principles of 
multiplication. (8) Name and define tlie four numbers ap- 
pearing in a solution by division when tlie division is not 
exact. (9) State the three principles of division. (10) Il- 
lustrate division to be a short method of subtracting equal 
juimbers, and to be the converse of multiplication. 

3. (1) Find the value of 

[(54-16)Xll+4-15X20] ^ [ 27+3X10-27 [ 

(2) State the tliree principles giving the change in 
the quotioit when a cliange is produced in either or both of 
two terms. 

4. (1) Write the prime faK'tors of 126280. 

(2) Simplify (li+5 of ^i 'h > ^ '^tY? 

5. Solve and exprpss tlie answer in words, when the 
l)roduct of 12 X 12 hundre<l-thousandths is divided by the 
quotient of 12millionths -f- 12 thousandths. 

6. New York is 74° 3' west and Paris is 2° 20' east of 
(Jreenwich; when it is 5 minutes and 32 seconds past 12 
P. M. at Paris, what is the time at New York? 

7. Out of how many dollars does a grocer swindle his 
customers in selling molasses to the value of $500 by using 
a gallon measure that is { pint short? 

8. A man sold two farms for $6,000 each, on one he 
gained 20%', on the other he lost 20"^. Did he gain or lose 
on the sale, how many dollars, and what per cent? 

9. Find the difference between the true and the bank 
discoiinf on $1,200 at 6%, for 1 yr. 6 mo. 15 da. 

10. If 12 men build a wall 30 feet long, 6 feet high and 
3 feet thick, in 15 days, by working 12 hours a day, in what 
time will 60 men build a wall 300 feet long, 8 feet high, and 
B feet thick, when they work only 8 hours a day? 



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ARITHMETIC, 

(From Milne's Standard Arithmetic.) 
[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. A man havingr spent f of his money and %\ mor^, 
had $41 left. How many dollars had he at first? 

2. A dealer sold a quantity of wheat at a profit of 16|% 
and gained $300. What was the cost of the wheat? 

3. What will be the face of a 60-day draft purchased for 
$450, if the rate of exchange is |% premium and the rate of 
discount 6% ? 

4. What is the rate per cent, per annum when $1,000 in 
3 years 4 months 15 days earns $168f ? 

5. The diameter of a circular plot for flowers is 10 feet. 
What must be the diameter of a similar plot which siiall 
contain 16 times as much area. 

6. I owe A \0% more than I owe C, and B 20% more 
than I owe A. If I owe B $128 more tlian I do C, how 
much is my indebtedness to each ? 

7. How many acres are there in a square tract of land 
containing half as many acres as there are boards in the 
fence inclosing it, if the boards are 11 feet long and ttie 
fence is 4 boards high ? 

8. If a child should receive 1 cent at birth, 2 cents on 
the second birthday, 4 cents on the third, 8 cents on the 
fourth, and double tlie amount on each birthday how mucli 
would he be worth when he is 21 years of age? 

9. A young man spends $150 a year for whisky and 
tobacco. Wliat will this amount to in 20 years, at 6% com- 
pound interest? (The amount of $1 at compound interest 
at 6% for 20 years— $3.207136). 

10. Express as a common fraction .2045. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR 
(From Metcalf s English Grammar.) 
[Second or Third Grade Certificate.] 

1. Define and illustrate: Subject; predicate; object 
complement; phrase; clause. 

2. Write one of each : (1 ) A simple sentence with both 
subject and predicate compound; (2) A complex sentence 
Iiaving both subject and predicate modified by a clause. 

3. Make a clausal and phrasal analysis of the following- 
sentence (by writing each clause and phrase, telling its 
kind, and what it modifies) : "Victor Hugo declared that 
he was sure he should live beyond the grave, because he 
felt his soul to be full of hymns and poems he had not had 
time to write.'' 

4. (1) Define inflection; (2) Name the parts of speech 
that are inflected, and tell what inflection is called as ap- 
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5. Write eacJi of the following words, if used in each 
number and case, in four columns headed a.s tlie noun boy 
below : 

(Nom. Sing. Norn. Plural. Poss. Sing. Poss. Plural. ) 
boy boys boy's boys' 

man, ox, goose, calf, fox, pansy, turkey, tyro, ne- 
gro, blutf, politics, riches, spectacles, deer, -\-, son- 
in-law, thou, one, Mary, Knight-Templar. 

6. (1) Distinguish between descriptive and definitive 
adjectives, and tell which have inflection; (2) Compare 
old, bad, much, fat, valuable, clumsy, ample, de- 
cent, polite, beautiful. 

7. (1) Define personal pronouns, and write the nomina- 
tive singular and plural of each; (2) Tell how compound 
personal pronouns are formed, illustrate their two uses, and 
decline the one of the second person. 

8. (1) Name tlie classes of adjective pronouns witli 
several of each class; (2) Name the three that are always 
singular; (b) three ifrequently compounded, forming nomis 
or adverbs; (c) the tliree that have case. 

9. Write the conjugation of the verb drivr in the pres- 
ent perfect tense in all j^ossible modes in both the active 
and passive voices and in both the progressive and ancient 
forms. 

10- (1) Write a plan, or model, for parsing the verb- 
(2) Parse all the verbs and verbals in the sentence quotetj 
in question 8. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

(From Metcalf's English Grammar.) 
fFirst Grade Ctertiftcate.l 

1. Explain the use of t/iere when A- is a complete 
verb; and it when in apposition with a clause. 

2. Write sentences, and illustrate the difference be- 
tween restrictive and non-restrictive clauses and the way 
of punctuating them. 

8. Make a clausal and phrasal analysis of the following: 

"•Those who are conversant with books well know how 

often tliey mislead us, wlien we have not a living monitor 

at hand to assist us in comparing theory witli practice." — 

Junius. 

4. (1) Distinguish between interrogative pronouns and 
interrogative adjectives; (2) Define conjunctive pronouns; 
name the five and tell when one of them is a pronoun, and 
when one tliem is preferable in use to w/io or w/iich. 

5. Construct sentences and illustrate the difference be- 
tween: (1) Transitive and intransitive verbs, also that the 
same verb may sometimes be transitive or intransitive; (2) 
Complete and incomplete verbs. 



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6. Point ovit the peculiarities of the Subjunctive Mode 
as to: (1) its use in propositions; (2) the number of 
tenses; (3) tlie terminations; (4) the time expressed; (5) 
tlie position of the auxiliary in certain instances. 

7. Write the synopsis of see with tkott in botli voices 
and in all modes and tenses. 

8. Write sentences and illustrate seven uses of the in- 
finitive plirase, explaining in parentlaeses the part of speech 
the infinitive represents, and its use as a subject, comple- 
ment, etc. 

9. Construct sentences and illustrate the uses of noun 
clauses. 

10. Parse fully the words in italics in the following, 
not omitting to give and explain their syntax: 

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead 

Who never to himself hath said, 

This is my own, my native land.' 

Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned 

As home his footsteps he hath turned 

From ivandering on a foreign strand? 

If such there breathe, go, mark him well; 

For him no minstrel raptures swell! 

GEOGRAPHY, 

(From Redway's Geography.) 
TFirst. Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Define dunes, canyons, delta, bayou, glacier. 

2. Name and locate the the mountain systems of North 
and South America. 

8. Write the countries of Europe in a column and op- 
posite each its capital and form of government. 

4. (a) Name the countries crossed by the 40th parallel 
of north latitude, (b) Begin on the west coast of the 
United States and name the states crossed by it. 

5. Name five valuable articles of commerce exported 
from Africa. 

6. Bound the Chinese Empii'e; name its principal riv- 
ers; neighboring waters; important cities; chief exports. 

7. Name and locate all large bodies of water lying in 
and around North America. 

8. What advantage to commerce would the cutting of 
the Nicaragua Canal afford? 

9. As relates to Mexico, tell: (1) In what zones locat- 
ed; (2) the number of states composing it; (3) its climate 
and plant life; (4) in what consists its chief wealth. 

10. In what latitude are the Philippines ? State what 
you know of the climate, the people, principal i^roducts, 
and of their worth strategically to the United" States. 



Florida Unifonii Examination Questions, September, igoo. 131 

COMPOSITION. 

(From Swinton's New School Composition.) 
[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Explain Synthesis of Compound Sentences: Con- 
struct five simple sentences and illustrate syntliesis. 

2. (1) Name two ways by Avhich variety of expression 
may be effected. (2) Construct sentences and illustrate 
each way. 

3. (1) State four requisites of a good style in the choice 
of words. (2) Under the third requisite construct sen- 
tences, and illustrate what is meant by redundancy, tau- 
tology and circumlocution. 

(3) Define Unity, Clearness, Strength; give some 
rules for the promotion of each in the construction of sen- 
tences. 

4. (1) Explain what is meant by loose and periodic 
sentences. (2) CouKtruct a loose sentence and change it 
into a period. 

5. Underline the words expressing a figure of speech 
and tell the kind exemplified in each of the following sen- 
tences : 

(1) The pen is mightier than the sword. 

(2) Trade, like a restive horse, is not easily man- 

aged. 

(3) The face of the deep is frozen over. 

(4) Death knocks alike at the palace and the cot- 

tage. 

(5) Am I a soldier of the cross ? 

6-10. Prepare a plan, or topical outline, and write a 
theme of not less than 250 words on one of the following 
subjects: 

(1) The Dangers of Imperialism. 

(2) Suggestions for the Improvement of the Pub- 

lic School System of Florida. 

(3) An Ideal Plan for Conducting Teachers' Ex- 

aminations. 

(4) Never Too Old to Learn. 

PHYSIOLOGY, 

(From Steele's Hygienic Physiology.) 
[First, Second or Third Grade Certificate.! 

1. Locate the fibula, scapula, ulna. Wliat frequently 
causes curvature of the spine? What is a sprain ? 

2. (a) What is a gland? (b) Describe three of the 
largest in the human body. 

3. (1) Describe the structure of the skin. (2) What is 
tlie value of bathing; the kind; tlie time for it? 



182 Florida Uniform Examination Questions, Sepicinbcr, iqoo. 



4. (a) How would you determine whether an artery or 
a. vein had been cut? (b) If in a limb, how would you 
proceed in each case ? 

5. State five evil results of rapid eating, and the dis- 
eases liliely to grow out of it. 

6. Give reasons for school room ventilation, and tell 
hoM^ it may best be done. 

7. Wliat is most likelv to induce sunstrol^^e, wliat the 
symptoms, and what sliould be the treatment if no phy- 
sicifui is near? 

8. Write a description of tlie eye and account for far- 
sightedness and near-sightedness. 

9. How do alcoholic stimulants affect each of the fol-r 
lowing: Heart, liver, kidneys, brain and nerves? 

10. (1) Can the evil effects of alcohol be transmitted 
by parent to child? (2) Why are malt liquors and light 
wines dangerous? (3) Give some of the evil effects of to- 
bacco, especially upon the young. (4) Name some of the 
narcotics, and tell what effect they have upon the system. 

THEORY AND PRACTICE- 

(From Roark's Methods in ICducation. Rejiort of the Committee of Twelve 
of Rural Schools, and Report of the Committee of Fifteen on ICle- 
nientary Education. 

[First, Second or 'I'hird Grade Certificate.! 

1. Give the substance of five of the author's ten ''Gen- 
eral Principles of Method." 

^. (1) State principles that should govern in lesson as- 
signment; (2) Discuss lesson ''Preparation by tlie Teacher." 

3. (1) State five "Purposes of the recitation"; (2) four 
"Rules of the Recitation"; (3) "Kinds of Questions to 
Avoid." 

4. Give the salient points made in the discussion of 
"Examinations." 

5. Discuss the five most valuable suggestions in the 
Chapter on Arithmetic. 

6. Give the substance of what is said in the Chapte'* 
on Character Building under the topics: (1) "Evasion of 
responsibility"; (2) "The homely virtues fundamental"; 
(3) "Honesty"; (4) "The teacher's personality." 

FROM REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF TWELVE. ONLV FOR AP- 
PLICANTS F'OR SECOND AND THIRD «RADE CERT.IFICATES. 

7. (1) Through whom do patrons, minor school officers, 
voters and even legislators, get their chief information of 
changes recommended by best authorities for educational 
progress; who never fail to benefit by such progress? (2) 
Adduce arguments, then, in defense of examining teachers 
on this Report. 



Florida Uniform Exaviiiiation Qtieslioits, Septeiither, igoo. 133 



8. (1) What fundanieiital principle justifies tlie levy of 
a State scliool tax ? (2) State tlie arguments urged in sup- 
port of smaller taxing- units, and against a scliool district 
tax. 

9. Summarize tlie arguments in favor of consolidation 
of schools and transportation of fmpils. 

10. (1) Give tlie qualifications requisite in a School 
Supervisor (County Superintendent), as prescribed by the 
Report. (2) Summarize the recommendations of the Re- 
port as to the scope, character and the proper agency to 
conduct teachers' examinations. 

FROM REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN. ONIA" FOR AP- 
PI^ICANTS FOR FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES. 

7. (a) Name the Chairman of the Committee of Fif- 
teen and of each sub-committee, (b) Give the subjects of 
the three sub-committee reports. 

8. What "widely prevalent doctrine" is recommended 
as to minimum educational attainments required for teach- 
ei's in the several grades of work ? What minimum age 
limitation is endorsed ? 

9. (1) Name the two parts of professional training and 
sub-divisions included in each. (2) Discuss the means 
recommended for their attainment. 

10. (1) Explain what is meant by the ''Correlation of 
Studies." (2) From this standpoint discuss the educative 
value of the study of Geography. 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT, 

(From Townsend's Shorter Course.) 
[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Relate the circumstances leading to the call for the 
Constitutional Convention, and the proceeding immediate- 
ly following the ratification of the Constitution of the 
United States. 

2. (1) How many amendments to this Constitution 
were proposed by the first Congress in 1789? (2) How 
many were adopted from that date to 1860? (3) How many 
subsequent to 1860, and to what do they relate? 

3. (1) Name the three distinct branches of the general 
government provided by the Constitution? (2) Explain 
the meaning of the preamble to the Constitution. 

4. State what the legislative branch of the government 
is called; name the two bodies composing it; tell how 
members in each are chosen; what constitutes eligibility 
to each; how vacancies in each are filled. 

5. Tell what a bill is; and give three procersses by 
which it may become a law. 

6. Name as many as you can of the nine prohibitions 
on the United States, and explain the meaning of each one 
you name. 



IHi Florida Uniform Examination Questions, Septe'iibcr, igoo. 

7. Name and explain the six proliibitions placed uj)on 
the States. 

8. Point out the striking similarity between the Gen- 
eral Government and the State Governments. 

9. (1) Name the titles common to most State officers 
with a brief statement as to the duties of each. (2) Name 
the law-making powers of a State, and describe the pro- 
cesses leading to a State law. 

10. State the usual sources of funds for the support of 
pu)>lic schools, and give the reasons why the State should 
liberally foster free public education. 

ALGEBRA, 

(From White's School Algebra.) 
[First Grade Certificate.! 

1. Divide ix^-Mx-=+3-*'e by Ix^-ffx— f. 

2. Resolve into five factors a^x-*— 2abx^+b'x^— a-y^+ 
2abv^— b^v^. 

3. Find the H. C. F. of Sx^— 4x-7, 5x2+3x-2, and ISx^ 
+18X+3. 

X 1 

■4. Reduce to its simplest form — ^ —1— ^7^Z-\\ 

5. The difference of two numbers is 8, and twice the 
sum of their reciprocals is equal to 3 times the difference of 
their reciprocals. Find the numbers. 

X— li?' 27(x+l) 

6. Reduce to simplest form —^ — ~7^Z-\yr' 

3 



7. Find the value of x in ^/x-|-l+^/xt=y x+1 

8. A steamer performed its down trip of 150 miles at a 
certain rate per hour. On the return trip, going 3 miles an 
hour slower, it took Ih, hours longer. What was the rate 
down the river? 

9. The product of two numbers multiplied by their 
sum is 180, and the sum of their <;ubes is 189. Find the 
numbers. 

10. An elastic ball falls from a sufficient height to re- 
l)ound 30 feet, and at each successive rebound rises \ of the 
distance of the previous one. How many feet will tlie ball 
pass over in 5 rebounds ? How manv feet before it comes 
to rest? 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 

(From Houston's Xew Physical Geography.) 

fFirst Grade Certificate.! 

1. Of what does Physical Geography treat? 

2. How have the soils of the earth been formed ? 



Florida Uniform Examination Questions, September, igoo. 13o 



8. (1) Ciive proofs that tlie interior of the earth is still 
in a higlily heated condition. (2) State the causes of vol- 
canoes and earthquakes. 

4. Describe the changes, and state the six agencies 
now causing changes in the earth's crust. 

5. (1) Discuss the origin of winds. (2) Define con- 
stant, periodical and variable winds. 

6. Discuss earth(iuakes: (1) Facts established; (2) va- 
rieties of motion; (;-{) velocity of motion; (4) their causes; 
(5) periodicity and distribution. 

7. Name five conditions which influence the quantity 
of water discharged by rivers. 

8. Give the characteristic fauna of the following: (1) 
North America; (2) Australia; (:5) Greenland; (4) Cuba. 

9. Name the conditions reciuisite for the existence of 
forests; of prairies; of steppes; of deserts. 

10. Locate tlie United States: (1) As to mathematical 
zon*^; (2) physical zone; (.■}) between what two isothermal 
lines? (4) Give the causes of difference in the climate of 
the Eastern and Western coasts. (5) State in what wind 
zone the United States are situated. 



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